Yeah, the liberal media tends to not give us all the facts. We might find the whole story not so bad afterall.

I read this war diary record in "The Polar Bears-Monty's Left Flank" by Patrick Delaforce.The book is about the 49th Infantry Division during the War. Whole battalions were decimated during these campaigns. My father's Unit, No 3 (Army) Commando, lost a staggering number of men Killed, Wounded and Missing. Any of the old boys left alive now must be wondering why on earth they fought that war. The regimes in place since have turned Britain into a cesspit. Regarding the enemy of today, has anyone realised that he has an enormous Fifth Column at work in Britain? A sharia edict recently told "British" Muslims that they should fight Britons and Americans. Time for internment?

Amazing isn't it, that one battalion took more casualties in two weeks than we have taken so far in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Germans were indeed tough bastards, and if the Russians hadn't worn them down, we'd surely never have won.

Seriously, I deplore any losses amongst our men, especially if they are caused by poor kit such as the Snatch or the Vector. Nonetheless, by any historical standard, our losses have been low, and if they are sufficient to allow the Taliban to drive us out of Afghanistan, then we may as well disband the armed forces and spend the money on cider.

I think that with a few exceptions the best of Britain emigrated, were transported for life or died for King and Country over the last 400 years leaving behind a most bleak shadow of a formerly great people. The more I read about the current kingdom of sheep the more convinced I am that something great has vanished from England and been replaced with nothing of much value.

"In approximately 11 months of combat, the 22nd Infantry Regiment suffered 111 officers and 1594 enlisted men killed; three officers and 209 enlisted missing or captured, and 419 officers and 7287 enlisted wounded...This does not count the thousands of non-battle casualities due to tench-foot, frostbite, combat fatique and other illnesses. Combined battle and non-battle casualties for the 22nd Infantry reached 351 percent and 560 percent for the rifle companies."

That's twice as many dead in one year for one regiment (equivilent of a British brigade)as the worst year in Iraq for the entire US military - yet we're taking "massive, unsustainable casualties?"

From the same unit

"By the end of the war, of the 229 soldiers assigned to his company on D-Day, 54 had been killed, 22 captured or missing and 192 wounded - 60 percent of those seriously - amounting to 268 casualities (presumably some wounded returned to duty to either be wounded again or killed) for the initial cohort of this one rifle company"

On Omaha Beach, on June 6 1944, the 1st and 29th Infantry Divsions lost approxiamtely 3000 dead, which is 75 percent of US KIA in seven years in Iraq

The USS Bunker Hill lost more dead in one minute in 1945 than the worst year in Iraq for the entire US military.

HMS Hood lost more men in seconds than the British military has lost in the past half century and if you throw in the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, you can probably expand that to, since WWII