Desecration on UK Commonwealth World War Cemetery in Benghazi

[petercook7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lubTL...layer_embedded

This is what we are faced with now, the world is getting a lot worse.

[mcmiller]

drunken post

[TeePee]

What?!? who cares.... they kicked over some head stones that have nothing to do with me...

No, nothing to do with you and your type at all. The people buried there were the kind of people who stood up to fight for what was right. Many would have been conscripts who weren't there by choice but still did their duty to save our country. These men gave their Blood, toil, tears, sweat and ultimately their lives for their country. So no, nothing to do with people like you.

[blueball]

as teepee said, nothing to do with you. Fortunately we don't have to rely on people like you these days though!

[tiggerai]

Make sure you keep this as a discussion guys.

[Barrichello]

Read about this, was their way of retaliating against the US burning of the Koran, by desecrating Commonwealth graves. Lets hope no more Commonwealth blood is spilt trying to interfere with the oppression of their brothers and sisters in Syria, leave it to the Arab League.

[Hicks12]

That is just... pathetic and wrong, cant believe ANYONE regardless of the situation would do a thing like this...

Its even worse when its over a stupid burning of a book (yes i know its an important book) IN THE US.

This is just wrong wrong wrong, this really gets to me... you cant do things like this its ridiculous! Whats worse is that it shows how weak and pathetic these people are as they cant better themselves and they pick a fight with the dead... I hope to god we kill all those crap people involved, should be punched to death for being the asses they're.


And McMiller, was that a serious reply? I would have thought youd have respect for the dead, considering these guys gave their lives for us, dont you feel at all that this is a big issue? Just because they didnt destroy your nans grave shouldnt make it irrelevant!.

[jim]

Bit disappointing. If it is indeed to do with the US Koran burning incident then it's either ignorance (assuming US=UK/Italy), or just bundling all Western nations together under some evil Christian banner.

As long as it's dealt with properly by the authorities though, and criticised by the majority, then I'm not too concerned. You get groups of people reacting to situations violently and perhaps irrationally all over the world.

[Hicks12]

Of course, unfortunately crap overreactions do happen everywhere nowadays . Must say though ive never seen it go like this... picking on the dead is certainly not the way to get their point across!

[DannyM]

It is quite ironic. If the people buried in those graves hadn't of defended our countries and we had lost the war, the people kicking the headstones over may not of been around to do so.

[peterb]

What?!? who cares....

Well I care, although none of thye graves had anything to do with me, and from other comments in the thread, so do other people, and given by the number of visitors to War Graves in (for example) France, thoisands more care too.

they kicked over some head stones that have nothing to do with me...

Yes, and at one level, it is petty vandalism. But on another, it is far more symbolic. As a species, we do remember our dead, grave artefacts from prehistoric times show that the dead have been treated with respect, and graves are a reminder of our own mortality. War Gravres tend to be particularly pouignany because they represent a usually violent death, a prenature death, a death "before their time" often to save comrades, in the service of their country, in what is termed "the ultimate sacrifice"

We hold anact of rembertence annually to rewmember those fallen in war, not just to remember the names, but to rwemember the horrors of war in the hope that we will learn from history, and perhaps to admire the feats of others and perhaps be inspired by them.

I have visited war graves of those fallen in the two World Wars, and in conflicts since then. In particular, that of Colonel H Jones VC and others, both Argentinian and British, and I have found the experiences very moving.

Whether or not you should care is up to you of curse, but you might like to consider that perhaps the sacrifice of these men, whose graves have been vandalised, and others like them, may have contributed to shaping the present day, for better of for worse, and that may have something to do with you.

[petercook7]

I think we should have left them at it, and we should not get involved Syria or anywhere else unless there is a direct threat to Britain. Britain should close the doors to any middle east asylum seekers.

[blueball]

I think we should have left them at it, and we should not get involved Syria or anywhere else unless there is a direct threat to Britain. Britain should close the doors to any middle east asylum seekers.

So we should just stand by and watch innocent people be massacred? Sorry but I can't do that.

[Barrichello]

So we should just stand by and watch innocent people be massacred? Sorry but I can't do that.

Good luck fighting the Syrian army, let us know how that works out for you.

Syria is no Libya....

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Good luck fighting the Syrian army, let us know how that works out for you.

Syria is no Libya....

Actually,the Libyan figures look a tad distorted as Libya had suffered years of sanctions. They had very few operational aircraft and helicopters left and most of the SAM network was quite old. In fact the French even tried selling them Rafale fighters and demoed a few in Libya a few years ago.

[petercook7]

So we should just stand by and watch innocent people be massacred? Sorry but I can't do that.

A nation is only truly free if they help themselves, the west has tried and we have been punished by middle eastern groups, the only way is to let them at it. After what they have done i don't care if they all kill themselves, and we should kick out newly arrivals middle eastern people from the UK.