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    Who really cares about Harry?

    Yesterday must have really been a slow news day! Who cares that Harry is in Afganistan? I saw a headline today 'Harry the Hero' - Why?
    Aren't there a few more people there doing exactly what he is.
    Over to you

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jivejunkie View Post
    Yesterday must have really been a slow news day! Who cares that Harry is in Afganistan? I saw a headline today 'Harry the Hero' - Why?
    Aren't there a few more people there doing exactly what he is.
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    I think you are missing the point.

    It's not just Harry that's in danger, it's the safety of the other soldiers around him that also has to be taken into account. For their sakes I think it's right that he should come away now.

    Harry is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, the poor sod can't win.

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    That's actually my point!
    If the media could shut up and not sensationalise, they wouldn't have put so many in danger.
    I know it was an American site that started it, but look at our 'wonderful' media now, especially the likes of the SUn who will have told you his exact location and postcode by the end of the week!
    So what if Harry is there, so are thousands of others.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jivejunkie View Post
    That's actually my point!
    Sorry...I didn't get that from your post.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jivejunkie View Post
    So what if Harry is there, so are thousands of others.
    Well...it is quite big news innit? A royal who actually want to work and is prepared to lay his life on the line, just like everyone else in his position, is quite something. By that I mean, he had the choice not to (unlike the rest of them) but he still went anyway.

    Then he gets people calling him selfish because he is endangering the life of others around him, even more so than usual cos they all want to kill Harry.

    If he didn't go he gets stick for that too. He's is put in an impossible position where no matter what he does, he upsets someone.

    He seems like a genuine fella to me who just wants to do the right thing.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jivejunkie View Post
    If the media could shut up and not sensationalise, they wouldn't have put so many in danger.
    I know it was an American site that started it, but look at our 'wonderful' media now, especially the likes of the SUn who will have told you his exact location and postcode by the end of the week!
    So what if Harry is there, so are thousands of others.
    Well this time around, I'm impressed by our usually irresponsible media, because they have known about this for a long time and have kept quiet about it for a change.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    He seems like a genuine fella to me who just wants to do the right thing.
    Deffo seems to have grown up of late and if you watch the video again he's got some of his mums mannerisms.

    It's a shame it has become public knowledge really he could have found a place for himself rather than the spare dick at an orgy image he had.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    . By that I mean, he had the choice not to (unlike the rest of them) but he still went anyway.

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    i suspect he didnt have a choice. This is a clear media move on behalf of the royal family. Do you think for one minute that he really is at risk. i doubt that very much.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    Do you think for one minute that he really is at risk. i doubt that very much.
    Are you kidding? Just by being in the country he was at risk.
    In Ploce, Croatia, hundreds of miles away from the fighting, it wasn't unusual for local loonies to take pot-shots at the "soldiers" trying to admin work, base workshops etc.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    This is a clear media move on behalf of the royal family.
    What, you reckon that Harry started bricking himself so his family made sure there was a leak so that the army would have no choice but to send him back?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post
    Do you think for one minute that he really is at risk. i doubt that very much.
    Well...I just watched the news and he looked pretty 'In the thick of it' to me, unless you think that is a propaganda film made deliberately to make us all think he's a proper soldier. I'm sure his fellow troops would soon go to the press to tell everyone if that were the case.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Are you kidding? .
    err no.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post

    Well...I just watched the news and he looked pretty 'In the thick of it' to me, unless you think that is a propaganda film made deliberately to make us all think he's a proper soldier. I'm sure his fellow troops would soon go to the press to tell everyone if that were the case.
    im sure he did but they are not going to show him one at the bar getting a BJ are they?

    I understand going into that country is risky on its own but im almost positive he will have some sort of protection that other everyday soldiers do not.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Harry who?

    YAWN.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Well this time around, I'm impressed by our usually irresponsible media, because they have known about this for a long time and have kept quiet about it for a change.
    well, clearly this is NOT true

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    well, clearly this is NOT true
    So he hasn't been there for the last 10 weeks without our press saying anything then?

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trouble View Post

    I understand going into that country is risky on its own but im almost positive he will have some sort of protection that other everyday soldiers do not.
    Yeah, like not having to share a flack jacket, a rifle that shoots straight and doesn't jam - and comfortable leather boots that don't give him blisters.

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Harry who?
    Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor, more commonly known as Prince Harry.
    Second son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana.
    Third in line for the British throne.
    Spitting image of James Hewitt.

    Do keep up Hunny Bun!


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    YAWN.
    ...and get some proper sleep

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    So he hasn't been there for the last 10 weeks without our press saying anything then?
    no, they haven't kept quiet about it - or we wouldn't be talking about it at all!

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    no, they haven't kept quiet about it - or we wouldn't be talking about it at all!
    I think the point is that 'our' (the British) media did keep quiet about it. The leak was on foreign websites (australian/us).

    On the BBC website it says

    "Prince Harry, in an interview recorded in Afghanistan prior to his withdrawal, said he had enjoyed being away from the press and England. "I don't want to sit around Windsor, because I generally don't like England that much and it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers.....," "



    Much easier being out there in past weeks than having people constantly talking about the al fayed affair

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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Quote Originally Posted by Double Trouble View Post
    Well...it is quite big news innit? A royal who actually want to work and is prepared to lay his life on the line, just like everyone else in his position, is quite something. By that I mean, he had the choice not to (unlike the rest of them) but he still went anyway.
    His uncle (Prince Andrew) did something similar in his day. Flying helicopters in the Falklands conflict does sound to me (as a non-military expert) like he laid his life on the line too.
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    Re: Who really cares about Harry?

    Personally i think Harry is now a man and found some purpose in his life.

    He is at risk in Afghanistan, as much as the next man.

    A bullet or mortar bomb has no discrimination upon whom it kills.

    Well done to Harry and another fine mess the bloody americans have got us into again.

    All hail the mighty (dumb) yanks.

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