Mutiny?

Felicity Arbuthnot
When (UK) Private Paul Barton (27) of the First Battalion of the Staffordshire Regiment returned from Basra, just days ago, he did the unthinkable. He telephoned his local paper, the Tamworth Herald and told the truth about the war that is lost and the extent of the disaster it has become. "Basra is lost .... the government are just trying to save face", he said. In the first hour they were there, he asserted, fifteen mortars and three rockets were fired into their base and they were "mortared every hour of the day", reported The Independent. Corporal Richard Bradley also spoke out saying: "Blokes are dying for no cause at all and getting injured for no cause at all." Every patrol they went on, said Barton: "We were either shot at or blown up by roadside bombs", concluding: "We have overstayed our welcome ... we should pull out and call it quits."...
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