>>>>>>>I know I should not be amused, but I am.
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>>>>>>>http://www.keyc.com/node/30663
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>>>>>>Reminds me of hearing that some-one gate-crashed Prince Williams birthday party at Windsor Castle - having first taken the precaution of disguising himself as Osama bin Laden......
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>>>>>One of the times I worked in London (Sainsburys head office by Blackfriars Bridge) the Queen was on parade when some guy shot a blank bullet into the air. Her horse reared. The guy was arrested That night I said to Pete, the operator of my local pub, that I felt sorry for the guy, it was probably a joke gone awry. "A joke?!" he said. He was not amused in the least.
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>>>>I remember the footage of teh Guards wrestling the man to the ground. Jeez! they had rifles with bayonets on them.
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>>>>>As it turned out there was a specific statute against it -- "Discharging a firearm in the vicinity of Her Majesty with intent to alarm her." I am not making this up.
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>>>>In the USA it usually ends up with a dead or badly injured, anti-tank president, n'est-ce pas?
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>>>We can only hope. Ours has now officially turned what was a war that made progress into 2 losses, and he's going to drag the one in Afghanistan out for a while so he can get the American public to give up on it (while increasing our body count). Having a president who deliberately kills our military hasn't been seen here since Carter (his fake hostage rescue). He needs to be removed by the most expeditious means possible.
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>>I hope you don't promulgate expedition with extreme prejudice! That wording sounds very CIA-speak for "terminate".
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>>Anyway, you twisted the plot here. I'm comparing a UK "assassination" attempt with US ones, not making any reference to current party politics or the righteousness of a war. Remember, our lads are coming back at least one a week in a box.
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>Yes - we're losing them at a faster rate, and the Messiah is going to slowly increase the number we put out as targets while emboldening our enemies by publicly telling them when we are going to surrender the region.

Maybe not proportionally. You do have a lot more boots out there. Some weeks 5 have come home at a time. You must have heard this story:

http://www.canada.com/news/Afghan+policeman+kills+British+soldiers/2182892/story.html