British Soldiers Tell Gordon Brown To Stuff It

This is clearly a very, very bad thing for an elected leader to go through. To be snubbed by the very soldiers that you are sending to war. Soldiers that know you are only doing so because you can not figure out how to leave the Afghanistan theatre in the War Against Islamofacsist Terror without it being a defeat.
But, soldiers at a British hospital in a real sense told the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, to go to hell. They did so by asking that their hospital curtains be drawn as Prime Minister Brown was visiting the injured soldiers from Afghanistan. And when some did meet with Prime Minister Brown, they had the reaction of this soldier,

“I wanted to find out how the guy’s head worked,” he said. “I was interested in what he had made of his trip to Afghanistan and what he had learnt from it.
“I feel that even if someone is a moron, he should have the opportunity to defend his moronity. [His response] all seemed rather textbook and not from the heart.
“It is quite obvious to anyone that Brown is not concerned, it is almost as if we [the soldiers] are the product of an unwanted affair.
“The straight fact is this: we don’t like the man, he has done nothing for us and continues to kick us in the teeth over equipment and compensation.”

So, what was Prime Minister Brown's job before he became the Labour party leader and successor to Tony Blair?
Mr. Brown was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, essentially the equivalent to the United States treasury secretary.
And what did Mr. Brown do in his tenure as the chancellor? Why he cut the defense budget. According to this article, the defense budget fell from 2.8% of the budget to 2.2%. While, surprise! Welfare programs saw dramatic hikes in their budgets.
An example that The Times' article cites is that as prime minister, Mr. Brown has sought to cut 17,000,000 pounds from the Territorial army training budget. And the government is taking two soldiers to court in a test case that seeks to slash compensation payments to wounded soldiers.
And Gordon Brown wonders why these soldiers, all volunteers as are those here in the States are angry with him. The majority of the soldiers think that this prime minister is setting them up to fail. And while they are at it, for the privilege, asking these brave soldiers to pay for it as well.
One of the commenter's on this article said it perfectly:

Philbert Desenex wrote:
Mr. Brown,When you lose your soldiers, you have lost the war. Seems to me you have lost your soldiers. Time to leave Mr. Brown!

Exactly! When a leader such as Mr. Brown did not want to enter into the Afghanistan and or the Iraq theatre in the War Against Islamofacsist Terror, this is the result.
Prime Minister Brown needs to decide now one thing. To leave with dishonor or to go all the way to win.
Your call, Prime Minister Brown. Your soldiers are waiting.

HT: Russ from Winterset @ www.ace.mu.nu