to be sick of hearing about soldiers being killed in afghanistan

[southeastastra]

and think we should pull out

doingthesbest, yes! of course thank you

am gobsmacked

You don't speak for me Theflyingonion as you have clearly missed the point.

well theres an understatement, Madam!!

Tell those widows and families how sick you think it is you idiot.
Arghhhhhhhhh that's made me so mad. Shame on you OP

You don't speak for me theflyingonion.

Well thats how i read it,op has been on mn a long time & is not a troll.

Just goes to show how differently people read things.

The OP , SEA is lovely and I'm sure her thread title was not meant in the way it has been taken.

SEA you are not wrong in your suggestion that MN is indeed this thick these days. I was a bit at the thread title until I saw it was you, and then totally understood.

I think the problem here is that there are many newbies and they don't 'know' the old un's and so don't know how to take us.

i am still bloody mad at seeing kids getting killed for this 'cause'

It is badly worded, however now that has been sorted out & her meaning has been clarified do we really need to go on & on & on for 800 posts about it?
No, but we probably will...

Madam, . Do you want to be any more patronising?

Molly you have also missed the point.

If you look at the post after and not just the thread title, it makes it pretty clear that the OP thinks it is a waste of life and not that she doesn't want to hear about it.

And once again Pagwatch has worded it better than me.

O dear....

crapbag, how am I being patronising??

i posted this in \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/1225670-when-are-we-getting-out-of-afghanistanz\in the news} and it got only a few posts

aibu brings in the traffic, but obviously not the brains

Why don't you ask HQ to delete and try again because this is going to run forever otherwise.

You did word it really badly, there's no need to accuse other people of being thick for that - look at what you wrote!

If you mean: "AIBU to be sick of seeing young boys dying in war for no good reason" then say that instead.

Then the OP needs to read her opening post before posting it I think.
As it sounds fucking awful and disrespectful

TFO how long have you been on MN?

SEA is not a troll. Perhaps you are?

Ursula, I'm sure it will as there will be loads who won't bother to read the first page or so, so I can only see how this thread will go.

Its not that difficult to understand.

OP, YANBU. I hate it. Especially as my brother is training in the Army at the moment and fully expects to be sent out. I'm dreading it.

As a mother of a boy i really do dread him one day saying he is joining the army,not because i am not proud of what they do to keep us safe at night but in case he gets shipped out to fight a pointless war.

I really feel for all the families of service men & women.

Nah , doingthebest

Just x-posted

This Govt announced pretty early on that it was setting a target for withdrawal, and it's still on course for late 2014.

As I type, there are two more obits on the News at Ten.

Madammemoo I didn't mean you. I was referring to Theflyingonion who referred to me as Madam in one of her posts.

Molly having come across you once or twice tonight, I can only deduce that you are up for a scrap, non?

Yes it's a waste of life and every soldier knows that too. But it needs to be kept in the media and they will not pull out of Afghanistan til 2012