Gord's Troop Trick

This is an article from the Sunday Mirror by Michael Brunson former ITN politcal editor which captures my sentiments exactly. Please Read.



Gordon Brown's utterly cynical decision to fly to Iraq last week had me spitting tacks.
I thought this Prime Minister had turned over a new leaf, staying out of sight until he had something important to say or do. Yet this was spin and news management of the worst kind - a cheap shot to try to steal the Tories thunder during their conference.
When Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly parroted the official line on BBC's Question Time that Gordon needed to inform himself of the situation on the ground ahead of his Commons statement on Iraq tomorrow. She was quite rightly greeted with hoots of derision from the audience and every other one of her fellow panelists, and made to look very stupid. So cut it out Gordon.
If I were a squaddie in Iraq or Afganistan I would be heartily sick of the procession of politicians and other bigwigs flying into pose with me in the heat and the dust and going on about what a fine job I was doing and how proud he or she was of all that had been achieved.
I bet that uppermost in my mind would be how soon I could finish the questionable job I was sent out to do and get back home, and whether my jerry-built, damp, Sixties barracks, or quarters had been improved while I'd been away.
Sorting that out, and even more importantly, securing proper and generous compensation, and first-class medical care, for those service men and women who've been injured is the way the Prime Minister can really show that he values what our armed forces are called upon to do instead of using them as a backdrop for photo opportunities.

WELL SAID - Michael Brunson for the next election then!!