Robert Kilroy Silk is a muppet (Question Time, 05.11.09)

So says Natalie Haynes in a discussion on whether to bring the troops hmome from Afghanistan.

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[tubehows4life]

@CitizenAngel "Insubordination is a major deal!" Hardly, in WW1, soldiers refused to fight in a war that was costing countless lives. They were conscientious objectors, and they were lined up and shot for their beliefs. Iraq is a war costing countless lives and these soldiers are not refusing to take part even though they wouldnt be lined up and shot. These soldiers are not heroes, they are sheep. Court martial and lost income? Ooh scary, give me a break. Not killing Iraqis is more important.

[XTONE85]

@betahifidelity I agree with you mate, she clearly didnt have an answer and just resorted to playground tactics

[MrHarrylime79]

Stadler or Waldorf?

[vegasable]

shes a fuking arsehole shes up against the grand master of chat and just made herself look like a fukin idiot way her imature sarcastic foolish rant stick that inyur pipe and puff it

[redpanda2401]

@XTONE85 I agree too, its people like her that shouldn't be in politics at all. They were supposed to be talking Soldiers and why they are fighting, she is talking about muppets she was insulting and childish.... what a disgrace.

[ferfookssekelad]

what's with all the kilroy hate? sheep mentality.

[4libertarianism]

By resorting to baseless insults, Kilroy's fellow panelist demeaned herself to his level.

[NottinghamForest22]

1:24 - 1:32 well said Kilroy.

[valarmanwe]

I notice that many of these kind of videos have comments disabled. If I can`t comment on a video, I don`t watch it.

[tubehows4life]

@DethMetal4All101 Insubordination may be important to the army, but it is all relative, and NOTHING to a bereaved Iraqi family, who have no interest in the British Army's rules and cultures.

If faced with it, I wont kill Iraqis, simple as that. Being "not allowed" to or "cant" refuse is irrelevant, the army has no choice. Insubordination may sound scary, any "heroic" soldiers would powerfully state why the war was wrong at the tribunal, and be heroes to the public.

[tubehows4life]

Oh I forgot to add re your last point, yes I'm sure the civilian courts would be involved too, but the comparison still stands bewtween WW1 consequences and today's. Besides, for what its worth, it would have been political suicide if more than a few British soldiers had been punished in the law courts for being conciousness objectors to the Iraq war.

I have mixed emotions about the soldiers, as I'm sure their traumas on the battlefield are very serious too, all the more reason to not do this!

[tubehows4life]

@DethMetal4All101 Soldiers were amongst the conscientious objectors in WW1 too, and I have way more sympathy for them than I do for Iraq vets, given the consequences.

If Iraq soldiers did the same its not that there would be no army, but that the government would be more careful in their war choices. My criticism goes up the army chain right through to the Generals. Why did none of them refuse up and down the hierarchy.