They died in vain

this week parliament is to pardon those soldiers executed in the Great War for cowardice and desertion. One of the reasons given is that they were not given access to a proper defence. yet at the recent trial of Fl Lt Kendall-Smith where exactly was his defence.This man was found guilty of disobeying orders and his legal representative was not allowed to call anybody to defend his position. My own son was given an honourable discharge from the army yet this man was sent to jail for six months. in earlier times he would probably have been shot.Yet this despicable government wants to change the law so that any army personnel refusing to operate in a foreign country will face being sent to prison for life. Even though they will either perform or be witness to activities which are war crimes they will not be able to disobey an illegal order. See what happens to you if you do.The Hutton report over the death of David Kelly was a whitewash, the decision not to put Saddam Hussain on trial in the Hague was done to protect the politicians in many countries, the leader of the labour party hopefully will soon be interviewed and charged over the loans for peerages, that is if there was anybody who doesn't stink of corruption who could make the decision, and I hope that the bad back with which the Queen is suffering from prevents her from attending the State Opening of Parliament because I couldn't even spit out the words put together by the Prime Minister of this country. All those soldiers I'm afraid did die in vain.