Rabbit Thought of the Day

The Government has today announced costs of its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are set to rise this year to £3.3bn. This is rise of 94% on costs incurred last year. The cost of the war in Iraq has risen by 72% despite a reduction in troop numbers. In a statement the chairman of Defence Committee James Arbuthnot said: "Few people will object to the investment being made in better facilities and equipment for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.”However, this estimate represents a lot of public money. The MoD needs to provide better information about what it is all being spent on."

This is an unbelievable amount of money spent on an illegal war. When will the Government realise that we are in a un-winnable situation. Despite our armed forces doing a tremendous job, in extremely difficult and arduous conditions we are unlikely to achieve our goals. This statement is taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office webpage.

The United Kingdom, alongside 38 other nations, is in Afghanistan at the invitation of the democratically elected Afghan Government to help rebuild and develop a country emerging from a quarter century of conflict. We are there to support Afghanistan's security, reconstruction, good governance and counter-narcotics work. The UK's efforts are co-ordinated by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Department for International Development and the Ministry of Defence.

However, the Taliban are a well organised organisation, who has been fighting for many years, under the guise of the Mujahideen they gave the Russian army a hard time before the Soviets realised that they could never win. When the Soviet Union pulled out the Mujahideen fought amongst themselves. When the allied forces moved into country the Taliban (Mujahideen) had once again a common enemy. The American Government through the CIA provided weapons and funds for the Mujahideen, no doubt these same weapons are being on our troops. Where have we heard a similar story, of course in Iraq? Didn’t the British and American Governments once finance Saddam Hussein? Will we ever learn?

I am still investigating this and I can promise lots more to come!

Rabbit

Well, I think the Dartford Bridge is now open again, but there are still delays of over and 1 ½ between me and there, plus it takes me about that anyway to get to work, so I am still looking at 3 hours to get to work. No I think I will continue working at home.

In a way I’m glad that it happened, because I just received my monitor back from the repairers and I’m just trying it out. It’s far better than the old CRT monitors it only been away a week, didn’t realise how much I have missed it!

Have a good day will be back later!

Rabbit

I have just arrived home after an interesting drive, I managed to get about 7 miles down the road, before I hit the back of the queue for the Dartford Bridge it was closed. Fortunately I was only about ½ mile from the next junction, so when arrived at junction, which did took me about twenty minutes, I did a quick about turn and came home.

I still had about twenty miles to go to reach the bridge; I instantly made a decision to work from home. It would probably have taken me another 2 – 3 hours to get to work. Of course the traffic would not get better for the rest of the day and would have taken for ever to get home!

Rabbit