Prince Harry is fighting in Afghanistan

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: SirStev0
Wonder if they weren't saying anything because now Al-Qaeda will be gunning for him...

Jeez, ya think so?

 

[RaDragon]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: RaDragon

Originally posted by: Josh
How come he didn't have to buzz his head like everyone else?

And I can't find any insignia on him? What rank is he?

Nevermind the hair! Notice how he's flanked with leet Asians!

i think they are ninjas


maybe ninja wizards

oooh... ninja wizards! they can supersaiyanteleport him outta afghanistan if there's trouble ^_^

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: freegeeks

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Why is that mentally unstable inbred even allowed in a military?

he clearly has bigger balls as an inbred then you will ever have

I am more concerned about his brain.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Don't they realize they just endangered the kid's life? Not to mention his team.

Same thing as pushing someone into a fire. If someone did that to me, they'd get a very personal ass kicking.

Yeah, maybe people will try to shoot at him now instead of... not shooting at him before? Cmon, its not as if batallions are clearly marked with their regiment IDs and other forms of particular information. You know what he looks like to people out there? A giant tank. There are thousands and thousands of soldiers spread across areas. It's not like they can sneak into the place, find him, and kill him. It's not like they can do a "/who prince david" and it will tell them where he's located. He's fine...

 

[PimpJuice]

Why dont they just out all the sons/daughters of republican senators/representatives fighting over there too??

oh wait, there arent any....

 

[DangerAardvark]

Why would his former troop be in any more danger? AQ can read our media coverage, but not well enough to figure out that he's been moved? They get bored after the first paragraph?

Oh and those freakin English rifles are sweet looking.

 

[pontifex]

did they release what unit he is in or where exactly he is deployed? how the fuck is anyone going to know which person he is if they don't have that info?

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Why would his former troop be in any more danger? AQ can read our media coverage, but not well enough to figure out that he's been moved? They get bored after the first paragraph?

Maybe. Some people posting in this thread missed it, so maybe they did too?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: RaDragon

Originally posted by: Josh
How come he didn't have to buzz his head like everyone else?

And I can't find any insignia on him? What rank is he?

Nevermind the hair! Notice how he's flanked with leet Asians!

i think they are ninjas


maybe ninja wizards

Close, those are gurkhas, one of the more elite units in the British army. They are recruted only from the mountains of northern Nepal and are some of the best mountain fighters in the world.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Ns1
I gotta say, if everybody was trying to keep it hush hush i don't think it was necessary for drudge to out him ^_^

This is an interesting situation. There was no need for Drudge to reveal his status and location. By doing so they are damn near certain to get people from his unit killed. So is DR now responsible for murder?

and prince harry is better than any other soldier who dies every day why...?

good for him for manning up, you'd never see chelsea clinton in the military, manly as she is.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: fisher

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Ns1
I gotta say, if everybody was trying to keep it hush hush i don't think it was necessary for drudge to out him ^_^

This is an interesting situation. There was no need for Drudge to reveal his status and location. By doing so they are damn near certain to get people from his unit killed. So is DR now responsible for murder?

and prince harry is better than any other soldier who dies every day why...?

good for him for manning up, you'd never see chelsea clinton in the military, manly as she is.

He's not but he is "royalty" and is choosing to serve.

 

[Syringer]

Drudge is a class-AAA douche.

Plus his website sucks like hell.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Eww...not a good idea. Now this kid is going to be targeted. Morons- why did they think they needed to report this???

$$ and to rule over all others

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: destrekor
War should NOT be something the media should constantly be reporting on... gives too much seemingly meaningless intel to the enemies, but does way more harm then they imagine.

Without the media, there would be no Abu Ghraib, no Haditha, no wedding party massacre, etc. x1000.

Without media, our soldiers would be doing God knows what to innocent Iraqis without repercussions. The military has shown very little initiative in policing itself.

Amen to that.

There are some details though that I would hope the media would voluntarily censor. Remember when Geraldo drew out a map in the sand of where they were, where the town they were hitting was, and how they were gonna get there?

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: destrekor
War should NOT be something the media should constantly be reporting on... gives too much seemingly meaningless intel to the enemies, but does way more harm then they imagine.

Without the media, there would be no Abu Ghraib, no Haditha, no wedding party massacre, etc. x1000.

Without media, our soldiers would be doing God knows what to innocent Iraqis without repercussions. The military has shown very little initiative in policing itself.

Amen to that.

There are some details though that I would hope the media would voluntarily censor. Remember when Geraldo drew out a map in the sand of where they were, where the town they were hitting was, and how they were gonna get there?

And therein is the conumdrum. You can't have a 'democratic' society without a truly free press, and at the same time you want your press corps to be responsible about what they report. Reporting that Prince Harry was on the ground is irresponsible. Showing photographs of caskets is responsible. Geraldo's map-drawing sounds irresponsible. The video of the marine shooting the guy on the floor of the mosque is responsible.

Unfortunately there's so much money in it for the networks, their reporters typically don't make this distinction. Or are overruled by a producer when they try to make such distinctions.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Two things, if anyone really cares for the truth.

1. The deployment you've heard about before was Iraq, not Afghanistan.
2. He didn't do his duty unprotectec but no one ever does, you'll always be surrounded by other troops, nothing special there, you DID NOT know shit about this before and neither did anyone else besides his commanding officer and the troops he went with.

He did what was expected of him and did it well. End of story.