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We are asked to remember the names of those soldiers killed, but not once will an explanation be given as to the reasons why their lives were taken. In Afghanistan, British soldiers have died because two aeroplanes flew into the Twin Towers in the USA. In Afghanistan, soldiers have died, like the ordinary Afghans, not even for the illusion of Freedom and Democracy but because Tony Blair wanted to prove his commitment to the "special relationship" he had with George W Bush.

Of course there was also the excuse of wanting to trumpet the cause of "fighting terrorism", through the creation of a power vacuum which has since engulfed Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Palestine, who have each since witnessed the dramatic growth of terrorism and indeed the increase of fundamentalism around the world.

"Lest we forget", that it was the reaction to the Afghan invasion, which saw the terror attacks on the London tube station, a day which has been marked as the much toned down British 9/11. That with the bombs being detonated in an ethnically diverse city, it took the bravery of civilians and the emergency services to literally pick up the pieces, as "our boys" were off fighting the fight inside of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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