Green on Blue

Green on Blue

‘Green on Blue’ sounds quite benign

Hints for decorating? Or interior design?

Alien to this currency is in the news -

Of more men dying in, ‘green on blues’

Killed by Afghans  -  without a chance

To save our leaders, as they dance

From Lie to fib and back to Lie

Is no good reason for any to die

What do they think lying in the Afghan sand

Why are we in this benighted land?

Fading into the arid dust

Do they wonder - as they must -

About all of those who’ve gone before

WTF was all that for?

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Are you listening Dr Reid?

Who committed 3500 troops to Helmand with the infamous line:

They (the troops) will leave, “Without a single shot being fired.”

Such stupidity guaranteed his entry into the House of Lords.

Not for him grieving fathers, mothers,sisters, brothers.

Not for him grieving wives and children. 

£300 a day expenses and a seat with G4S as a ‘security consultant‘  - Who said satire was dead.