tag:eightmileshigh.blog.co.uk,2009-11-10:/It's a hard life out there.... but I ask only one question and it's this.... You've been in charge in this country, and indeed around the world, forever. I don't know about you but I think politics has failed. In the face of this they can only answer by giving us ever more heavy doses of policies that patently don't work for the people. Therefore: as you have failed, can we have a go now please?MokoFeed2009-11-10T12:32:21+01:00tag:eightmileshigh.blog.co.uk,2006-02-14:/2006/02/13/a_few_bad_apples_not_bloody_likely~559101/#c691049Markeboy2006-02-14T08:44:54+01:002006-02-14T08:44:54+01:00Speaking as someone who is not, nor never has been a serving soldier but who works closely with army personnel at all levels of seniority up to Colonel, this post seems to be as anti-soldier as some of the others are complacent of abuse. The reality as I see it is that combat does have a significant impact on the mental health and attitudes of all involved. My experience is that the aspirations of the military hierarchy for honourable behaviour is sincere but that this is sometimes lost when troops are deployed to combat areas. In some instances this may be "bad apples" but a more likely reason is the inhuman and dehumanising impact of the soldiers experience in that situation. I have spoken to several soldiers who have returned from Iraq who remain traumatised by their experiences long after their deployment is finished. This 'war' was entirely avoidable and as such it is Blair (in the British case) and his cronies who are the culprits and who should really be the subject of public opprobrium.. tag:eightmileshigh.blog.co.uk,2005-12-07:/2005/12/07/it_s_your_money_take_it_back~367575/#c395917eightmileshigh2005-12-07T17:42:55+01:002005-12-07T17:42:55+01:00Here, here!tag:eightmileshigh.blog.co.uk,2005-11-30:/2005/11/30/the_little_lies_we_all_tell~349167/#c373645eightmileshigh2005-11-30T18:56:38+01:002005-11-30T18:56:38+01:00Unfortunately the Dear Leader seems to have found himself a very strange God... I think it might be Mammon but I can't be sure...tag:eightmileshigh.blog.co.uk,2005-11-30:/2005/11/30/the_little_lies_we_all_tell~349167/#c372501The_Walrus2005-11-30T13:26:06+01:002005-11-30T13:26:06+01:00The Dear Leader has made it clear God is guiding him.