Dead soldier's mother attacks Blair

[kskiska]

The mother of a teenage soldier killed in Iraq on the day sovereignty was handed back to the country said yesterday her son was no more than "a bit of meat" to Tony Blair.

Rose Gentle, 40, whose 19-year-old son Gordon died in a roadside bombing near Basra, said the Prime Minister and Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, should not have sent him to Iraq after only three months in the Army.

She added: "My son was just a bit of meat to them, just a number."

"This is not our war, my son has died in their war over oil and they haven't even taken the trouble of picking up the phone to say they're sorry for our loss."

Fusilier Gentle joined 1 Bn Royal Highland Fusiliers three months ago and was on his first active posting when his Army Land Rover drove over a concealed bomb on Monday morning - one hour after George W Bush and Mr Blair handed sovereignty to a new Iraqi government.

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[Cha]

1. I can understand her rage...and she speaks the

truth. bush and blair should be tried for treason and war crimes.

[dArKeR]

2. BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED AS IRAQ OCCUPATION ENDS

By Maggie Barry

The grieving mother of the latest British soldier to be killed in Iraq today lashed out at Tony Blair and Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon.


Tearful Rose Gentle said her son Gordon was nothing more than "a bit of meat" to the politicians, adding that he had been killed in a "war over oil."


Tragic Gordon was just a fortnight away from returning home when his young life was cut short by a terrorist's home-made bomb yesterday.


The 19-year-old fusilier was on the verge of completing his first three-month tour of duty in Iraq and had only recently finished basic training.

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[Dhalgren]

4. I noticed that the "Mirror" called it

a "terrorist's" bomb. Why the propaganda in the middle of this anguished mother's story? It is the creeping insensitivity that is becoming a characteristic of our "western" culture. It sickens me...

[Sugarbleus]

3. this is really sad. I can feel that mother's pain........

no one bothered to send a condolence?? Geeezus! Barely out of school, barely out of training...kaboom! Poor woman.

The thing that really burned my sheets the other day was the sight of "BadAss Bush", along with Blair and the rest of the "saints" in Turkey there........all laughing and having a wonderful day, cajoling one another after hearing of the handover. Passing notes, eating dainties etc etc. All the while, the Iraqi's are holding their breath and the soldiers continued to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE...not a somber one among them--the effing c**ksuckers!!!!!! I'm so sick of these people in power. :nuke: