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 | Royals at war: Prince Harry skips the trip | BBC News | Fri May 18 | 3 |
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{"commentId":711447,"authorDomain":"brianford"}
Man, hats like that are so dignified. I wish I didn't look stupid while wearing them.
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- 17 votes
#1 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:11 PM EDT{"commentId":711485,"authorDomain":"emix"}
Ditto.
Maybe it's the umbrella that ties it all together...
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":711498,"authorDomain":"gregplancich"}
Seriously, they are so suave...
I really wish I could pull that off.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":711537,"authorDomain":"jamesmirick"}
. . . just like Laurel and Hardy. Ah well . . .
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":711606,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
I think you actually have to be British to look good in them. It's genetic.
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":711789,"authorDomain":"jdmiller82"}
bowler caps are too "A Clockwork Orange"
I can't get past the perversity
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":711922,"authorDomain":"stevetherobot"}
What? They look like serious dorks in those dorky hats. Maybe if he wasn't wearing the dorky hat and carrying something more lethal than an umbrella, the insurgents would have a harder time capturing him.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":711928,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
and carrying something more lethal than an umbrella,
Have you not seen Batman Returns?
{"commentId":711928,"threadId":"103995","contentId":"722291","authorDomain":"deatienza"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":713203,"authorDomain":"Raskolnikov"}
In order to pull off the bowler hat look, one must be weened by a wet nurse of proper servitude and pedigree and be a product of one of a handful of public schools where the trauma of systematic peer torture is so entirely repressed that one's awareness of the dorkiness and "Kubrikesqueness" of the bowler hat becomes entirely irrelevent.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":711468,"authorDomain":"twistedwrister25"}
finally common sense prevails.
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- 3 votes
#2 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT{"commentId":711539,"authorDomain":"20wavebreaker"}
I bet he leaves his bowling hat at home when he hits the night clubs. It makes me think, if tabloids are always publishing this kids wherebouts and at the same time, he's a top target for miltants...get my drift?
Curious? Google Christopher Ruddy
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- 3 votes
#3 - Wed May 16, 2007 12:34 PM EDT{"commentId":711721,"authorDomain":"soulbabel"}
so he's in danger from the people he's going over there to fight, therefore he's not allowed to go... wtf?
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- 3 votes
#5 - Wed May 16, 2007 1:28 PM EDT{"commentId":711851,"authorDomain":"behindmyscreen"}
Not just that... he creates a military liability because his company will get extra attention (from the public and the enemy) and that could compromise operations. On top of that, If the insurgents kidnap him (which is going to be the predominant objective of anyone attempting to get at him) Then you will have a serious political problem.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":712075,"authorDomain":"soulbabel"}
They just need to prevent him from being recognized, so they could just give him an alias and one of those Groucho Specs and Moustache kits... problem solved.
Besides, he's in a tank, he should be pretty well off unless he decides to stop and hand out autographs. Not to mention, if he dies in battle, they could spin it like he was Braveheart and invigorate the war effort.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":712080,"authorDomain":"tigerblade"}
They could say he's seven feet tall and shoots lightning out his arse!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":712081,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
Just stick him in the Green Zone. We all know how impervious to attack that place is...
{"commentId":712081,"threadId":"103995","contentId":"722291","authorDomain":"deatienza"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":711970,"authorDomain":"tigerblade"}
No, really? You don't say.
Seriously, no one really believed he was going to get anywhere near Iraq. He's just too much of a liability. It's nothing against him personally -- he didn't choose to be born into the royal family.
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#6 - Wed May 16, 2007 2:34 PM EDT{"commentId":712085,"authorDomain":"PHATjoe"}
You guys seem alright with this? I think the guy is a failure to the Throne. How many great leaders of countries and empires went to battle with their fellow countrymen? Most of the ones from history! This guy's great great great grandfather would turn over in his grave if he knew what a coward this guy is. Even if he isn't King, as the male heir to the throne he should go into battle!
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#7 - Wed May 16, 2007 3:12 PM EDT{"commentId":712095,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
It's not his decision here. The general in charge of his unit is not deploying him.
{"commentId":712095,"threadId":"103995","contentId":"722291","authorDomain":"deatienza"}
- 9 votes
{"commentId":712319,"authorDomain":"emix"}
From another recent AP article:
"There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he said in an interview to mark his 21st birthday.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":712479,"authorDomain":"restso"}
Even if he isn't King, as the male heir to the throne he should go into battle!
William is the older son and heir to the thrown...
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":712220,"authorDomain":"chum"}
If I were in his unit, I would be VERY relieved. If he went, he would be targeted by every insurgent/enemy in Iraq (and beyond). The guys around him would have been dead when they hit the sand.
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- 8 votes
#8 - Wed May 16, 2007 3:59 PM EDT{"commentId":713387,"authorDomain":"JaneMurrayStringer"}
Regardless of his ego this is the right decision. Every platoon with a ginger haired officer would be in danger. This has nothing to do with saving his life (which, let's be honest, is not a high priority since he is third in line to the throne) this has to do with saving the lives of those around him. He is a liability and I am thrilled he isn't going. That said if the press had left this story alone instead of essentially stating exactly when and where he will be he might of gotten to serve.
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- 2 votes
#9 - Thu May 17, 2007 4:23 AM EDT{"commentId":714811,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}
Couldn't he be ordered to keep his head shaved?
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{"commentId":715229,"authorDomain":"behindmyscreen"}
in reality he is second in line as the queen desperately wants to give the thrown to William rather than his philandering father.
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{"commentId":713509,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
It is a joke. every soldier knows that he is responsible for those around him and they for him/her.
Keeping a royal away from the fighting is sending out further confirmation that the royals are a joke.
No matter what spin the Buckingham or the army put on this, the clear question is:
WHATS THE POINT OF HIM SIGNING UP AND TRAINING TO BE IN THE ARMY, IF THE ARMY THEN WON'T LET HIM FIGHT?
When that happens to others, we just call them A LAME DUCK!
IF YOU CANNOT FIGHT, YOU HAVE NO PLACE BEING IN THE ARMY. IT'S CALLED BEING A COWARD. NO MATTER WHAT SPIN IS PUT ON IT.
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#10 - Thu May 17, 2007 7:13 AM EDT{"commentId":713551,"authorDomain":"tigerblade"}
No, I don't think that's it. I don't think he's a coward at all -- he wants to go fight. The higher-in-commands have decided wisely that he would be a threat to the soldiers around him were he to go into active front-line duty. There are probably still posts he can take without being in such imminent danger of being captured.
They're not trying to spin this. They're being pretty straightforward about why they're not going to let him up front where he'd be a bright shining target for the enemy, who would have no problem with killing the rest of his unit to get him.
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{"commentId":713590,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
Because there are enough extremists living in the UK now that they could find out even @ what time Harry brushes his teeth before leaving, this is not about the Prince, this is about the safety of the British troops.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":713742,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
Harry is NOT a coward - I did not mean it that way - HIS ARMY IS.
Like it or not - the army has created a lame duck. He might as well be sitting on the front of a Rolls Royce for all the good he will do fighting as a soldier.
Yet again, one rule for one and one rule for another. Stick your heads in the sand, call or spin it what you will, the world is seeing double standards here amd once more the Royal family of England has become a joke again. Well done.
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{"commentId":713843,"authorDomain":"tigerblade"}
Again, it's not a matter of choice. The double standard isn't just to keep him safe, it's to keep the rest of the army safer. Safer than they would be if they had a royal in their ranks, at least.
And... if I wasn't such a nice guy... I'd suggest that your comments could be taken as trolling. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
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{"commentId":714483,"authorDomain":"Ardith"}
{"commentId":713514,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
If he was sent over, does anyone think for one second that he would be up at the frontline? Come on, nobody is that stupid!
The royal cowards would insist that he was so far back from the front line that he might as well be lying on a beach back in Blackpool.
Its ok for others to fight and die but O' no, not a royal child. SELECTIVE COWARDICE!
IF YOU CANNOT FIGHT, YOU HAVE NO PLACE BEING IN THE ARMY. IT'S CALLED BEING A COWARD. NO MATTER WHAT SPIN IS PUT ON IT.
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#11 - Thu May 17, 2007 7:18 AM EDT{"commentId":713594,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
This kid is as rebel as his late mother, Princess Diana, and I am sure that now he is very much upset. He is not the coward, he did not ask to come to this world. The famous are a liability.
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{"commentId":713602,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
How is he, specifically, a coward when he wants to go but the army won't let him? It's not spin to say he's not a coward. It's having the proper definition of the word 'coward' and actually looking at the f-a-c-t-s.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":713589,"authorDomain":"Reckon"}
Philology + Joseph Campbell = figure it out. When on-stage so often one might find it overbearing to simultaneously dip into the theatre...
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#12 - Thu May 17, 2007 8:15 AM EDT{"commentId":713933,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
What the hell is this rubbish!
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{"commentId":713750,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
Harry is NOT a coward - I did not mean it that way - I meant that HIS ARMY bosses are.
Like it or not - the army has created a lame duck. He might as well be sitting on the front of a Rolls Royce as an ornament for all the good he will do fighting as a soldier.
Yet again, one rule for one and one rule for another. Stick your heads in the sand, call or spin it what you will, the world is seeing double standards here and once more the Royal family of England has become a joke again. Well done.
{"commentId":713750,"threadId":"103995","contentId":"722291","authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
- 1 vote
#13 - Thu May 17, 2007 9:36 AM EDT{"commentId":713754,"authorDomain":"jazz-jeff"}
When is a soldier not a soldier?
Answer: WHEN YOUR A ROYAL!
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- 1 vote
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