- Akldnut2.120 August 2012 at 9:09 amThis is so sad – I’m gutted for the soldiers families.
Morrissey2.1.1
20 August 2012 at 9:43 amSo what steps are you taking to make sure this doesn’t happen to other families? Have you contacted your M.P. and demanded he/she press the prime minister to pull our troops out?Akldnut2.1.1.1
20 August 2012 at 11:18 amBunter Bennett won’t speak to me or call back after I told her to “F” off my property so I went into Cam Calders office while out South but each time I ask for a reply to my demands they ignore me, so I don’t even try anymore.Have you?- 20 August 2012 at 7:13 pmBunter Bennett won’t speak to me or call back after I told her to “F” off my property so I went into Cam Calders office while out South but each time I ask for a reply to my demands they ignore me, so I don’t even try anymore.I sympathize with you. Be careful not to antagonize that ghastly woman or she’ll mount a campaign of defamation against you.Have you?Yes. He was polite enough. Like everyone, he knows that this war has no justification, but I hold little hope that he will find the courage to actually speak that truth.
GregJ2.2
20 August 2012 at 9:40 amIt is worth pointing out that women also serve in our armed forces, including in Afghanistan – and it is rumoured that one of those killed may be a female soldier.Draco T Bastard2.2.1
20 August 2012 at 1:59 pmWhy is the fact that one of our soldiers was a women make any difference?Colonial Viper2.2.1.1
20 August 2012 at 2:25 pmPublic reaction to a female KIA or one taken prisoner can sometimes be different. Male and female soldiers cannot be assigned the same roles when dealing with a Muslim population. Modern military forces commonly distinguished roles (formally and informally) which are not filled by women.deuto2.2.1.2
20 August 2012 at 2:30 pmIt doesn’t Draco – but a number of comments on the Standard today have referred to the NZ troops in Afghanstan being ‘our boys’ , or ‘sons, fathers, brothers’ etc without any appreciation/recognition that those troops also include women.
IrishBill3
20 August 2012 at 7:54 amMy condolences also.- 20 August 2012 at 9:32 amMy condolences also to the families, friends and colleagues – Stuff are now reporting that one of the three is a woman.Goff is currently being interviewed on Nime to Noon and, if I heard him correctly, is saying that in his opinion, there is no longer a prospect of achieving the original objectives of our participation in Afghanstan and we should possibly withdraw.
- 20 August 2012 at 10:24 amGoff is… saying that there is no longer a prospect of achieving the original objectives of our participation in Afghanstan and we should possibly withdraw.Goff and Helen Clark are as culpable in this criminal fiasco as Key is. In fact, their culpability is greater, for they sent the troops there in the first place. They mouthed the propaganda about “reconstruction” and fibbed about good-natured Kiwi soldiers winning the hearts and minds of the locals.The revelations about those good-natured Kiwi soldiers being bullied by American grunts into handing over captive civilians for possible torture and summary execution make the lies of Clark, Goff and Key even more craven.
bbfloyd4.1.1
20 August 2012 at 12:13 pmAmazing what rubbish goes through what passes through a tories mind nowadays….. Only an incurable bigot with the attention span of a goldfish would feel competent to make the kind of statement you’ve just made morris minor….try again.. and this time, spend more than five seconds absorbing tory slogans to use as your intellectual basis….You may not make such an ass of yourself….(i’m assuming you have the wit to understand the big words contained in the articles outlining reality as it is, not as the tories would wish it to be)- 20 August 2012 at 7:01 pmAmazing what rubbish goes through what passes through a tories mind nowadays…Whatever hallucinogenic substance you are on, I don’t think it improves your writing style. I enjoyed being called a “tory” for a moment or two there, until I realized it came from a confused mind.
Lanthanide4.1.2
20 August 2012 at 1:06 pm“They mouthed the propaganda about “reconstruction” and fibbed about good-natured Kiwi soldiers winning the hearts and minds of the locals.”So you knew, with 100% certainty, that it was all for naught before the soldiers were sent?Maybe you should buy lotto tickets if you’re so good at predicting the future.pukeko4.1.2.1
20 August 2012 at 3:39 pmKaua koe e whai atu i ngā mahi a te hukehuke rā, kei raru kōrua tahi- 20 August 2012 at 7:07 pmSo you knew, with 100% certainty, that it was all for naught before the soldiers were sent?I know with 100 per cent certainty that no New Zealand soldiers were killed in Afghanistan before Helen Clark had her arm twisted and sent them there.I know with 100 per cent certainty that the overwhelming majority of Afghanistan’s people want the invading troops out.But why don’t you listen to one of them yourself, accompanied by the world’s most respected dissenter?…
rosy5
20 August 2012 at 9:32 amSuch a tragic loss for the families and friends of these 3 men. Deepest sympathy.- Jenny2120 August 2012 at 8:10 pmGordon Campbell writes that it is gutless crawling to the Americans by our leaders that New Zealanders are dying for.
geoff21.1
20 August 2012 at 8:26 pmyup, nice one Jenny.- 20 August 2012 at 8:30 pmIt’s honesty like that, along with the fact that he’s humiliated Graham Bell and Richard Griffin on air, that means Campbell is not asked to appear on National Radio’s wretched “Panel” programme any more.
Grumpy21.2.1
21 August 2012 at 7:36 amCampbell would have a lot more credibility if he had written those comments years ago and substituted “Clark” for “Key”……….- 21 August 2012 at 9:32 pmCampbell would have a lot more credibility if he had written those comments years ago and substituted “Clark” for “Key”……….He did, and on many occasions. You really need to catch up on your reading, my friend.
