A job well done

On Thursday somewhere out in the desert in Basra, the names of every soldier who had died in ’this war’ were read to the survivors who endured the half hour list wearily trying to stand to attention out of respect, under the heavy desert sun perhaps for the last time in 6 years,

some hoped Mr Brown would make an appearance for the ceremony but they were disappointed, others passed out from exaustion before the death list was finished. spirits were surely lifted though by the Brown message, ’a job well done’,

what has been accomplished and how it was worth 179 lives and nearly 1000 cripplings will remain one of the mysteries of war for now, rest assured though that now after 6 years of bullets inquires are poised to ask questions like

‘why did we go to war?’