The body of Sergeant Paul Fox is repatriated to RAF Lyneham. For the first time, the Ministry of Defence allowed a photographer inside the C17 transport plane as the bodies of four British servicemen were brought home from Afghanistan. (Sgt Ian Forsyth RLC/MOD via Getty Images)Gordon Brown’s Cuts ‘Cost Lives Of Soldiers’ -- Times Online
Soldiers’ lives were lost in Iraq and Afghanistan because Gordon Brown failed to fund the Army properly when he was Chancellor, a former chief of the defence staff said yesterday.
The Prime Minister is due to appear before the Iraq inquiry today at 10am.
General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, who led the Armed Forces from 1997 to 2001, told The Times: “Not fully funding the Army in the way they had asked . . . undoubtedly cost the lives of soldiers. He should be asked why he was so unsympathetic towards defence and so sympathetic to other departments.”
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My Comment: The UK military is in open revolt with their own Prime Minister .... it does not get any worse than this.