Ben Griffin, Veterans for Peace - "War is the most destructive activity humanity participates in..." 

You really dont fucking care tho do you smartass?

Yeah, what do actual special forces soldiers know, eh. Nothing. You know better sat at a computer in your mum's basement.

@@AD-kv9kj Well just because I am sitting behind my computer I can still make a comment. Well the coward was in B Sqn and he refused to return to Iraq. So I know quite a little more than you about the facts of this prat.

@J No that was the excuse given he was RUTed to his unit or had the opportunity to leave he chose to leave as the Paras wouldn't want him back he refused to go back to Iraq

@J No as I said before I have first hand info

The whole point of him speaking is that he has done the army training, been in the SAS, experienced tours of duty in Iraq and what was Yugoslavia and realised how wrong it all was. Speaking from experience he tries to change people's minds about the (ig)'nobility' of war. What do you do about it? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eccMTIcd3ww.html&ab_channel=OxfordUnion

@@misterbonzoid5623 Becase there are many other out there who have experience in those location and he coming out with a pack of lies ?

He was talking about the US and UK special forces smash raids on thousands of civilian houses. Their orders were to blow holes in the walls, raid each house, arrest any men and to trash the place looking for any computers, drives, passports, ID, photographs, documents etc etc as quickly as possible. All the men were sent off to US interrogation camps, many of whom were then moved on to torture in Guantanamo base. By the end of the war, it was admitted that almost all of these men who's homes and families were ransacked, and were tortured and detained for years after were completely innocent people. British and US intelligence services got the "intelligence" for all these thousands of houses to raid by sending agents into Iraq with huge wads of cash, offering it to anyone who'd tell them where any insurgents were living. Basically, loads of random people just told these agents any old nonsense to get their hands on the cash, as they lived in desperately poor villages. He isn't a prat, he knows what he's talking about unlike you lot of armchair internet warriors. A lot of special forces operators top themselves not only due to PTSD (which is a blanket term for all kinds of different psych problems caused by battle and military conditioning) but also due to the shame of knowing they've done some wrong things under orders from the MoD. Many are left alienated from the command structures and politics behind what they thought was a worthwhile job. Of course some of what they do is extremely worthwhile and good overall, but not all of it. And only those who work on certain dodgy operations, like the Iraq smash raids hunting for insurgents based on bogus intel, can see first hand when something doesn't add up. Maybe try actually listening and paying attention and learning about all the complex problems he's talking about. Instead of sitting behind a computer feeling reactionary and butthurt at the idea that our military isn't always used justly. It isn't. Get over it, life isn't black and white and people like Ben need to speak out and bring these forms of corruption and ignorance into open discussion.