This video from Manchester, England, is called Anti-War Protest as Blair Resigns and Brown Takes Over.
By Fiona McIntosh, in the Sunday Mirror in Britain:
Sarah Bryant death is yet another wasted lifeAfghanistan: naming the dead ceremony in Swindon: here.22/06/2008
Ever since she was a little girl, Sarah Bryant dreamed of serving in the British Army.
She grew up with stories of heroic wars when brave men and women put their lives on the line to defend their country. Joining the Army and fighting for a great cause meant everything to Sarah.
Except by the time she saw active service, Sarah was sent off to fight a different kind of war: the messy, indiscriminate, political “war on terror” that followed no rules. Battling to control insurgents in Afghanistan was once famously described as being “like sweeping - water uphill” - no matter how hard you push, it always trickles back.
Yet Sarah and other bright, beautiful young men and women continue to be shipped out there to risk their lives in a war that most of us don’t understand or ever had a chance to sanction.
Looking at the photographs of this radiant, special girl have brought the horror of these god-awful wars home. When a roadside Taliban bomb blew up Sarah and three other young soldiers she tragically became the first British female soldier to be killed in Afghanistan. …
How many more of our best and brightest young men and women have to be blown to bits before a decision is made that enough is enough? Gordon Brown says British servicemen are fighting “the noblest of causes”, but what exactly is that cause? Throwing young lives away in a country that’s been wracked with insurgency for decades?
With 230 more British troops due to be sent to Afghanistan soon, we owe it to these heroic men and women to explain why we are still there and when on Earth it will ever end.
Anyone who had the guts to get them in there, now needs the guts to get them out.
