Lies At The BBC - army desertion figures

Seems that the BBC has been lying again - no suprise there - about desertion figures from the armed forces.

The liars at El Beeb gloat: More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.

During 2005 alone, 377 people deserted and are still missing. So far this year another 189 are on the run.

Some 900 have evaded capture since the Iraq war started, official figures say.

The Ministry of Defence is very secretive about the number of men and women who desert from the armed forces. A bit strange that as not only do the armed forces produce figures but the BBC believes the figures from a non armed forces source.

Yet after blasting us with these figures we find out that, desertions were higher in 1999 when there was no war going on. Yes a higher rate than when we are actually at war.

"There were nearly 2,000 recorded cases of desertion last year [1999]..."

So in fact the numbers who have deserted have plumetted from 2000 a year to 377 in 2005, oh and whats that other figure? 189 this year. The initial figure of a thousand sounds a lot, but desertions happen for many reasons and taken from 2003 on its only a few hundred a year.

Seems that the drop in figures show that the armed forces have tackled problems like bullying that was a major problem at one time when the figures for 1999 came out, and the loyalty of our troops deserves better than a cheap hatchet job from the BBC. In fact their figure of 1000 + seems to be made up of a total over each year since 2003

Having read the poor article at the El Beeb it shows that they care little for facts and indeed bring in numerous people with an anti war stance: First up we have Justin Hugheston-Roberts was the solicitor for Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith who was sentenced to eight months in prison for refusing to follow orders in connection with a deployment to Iraq. Now you must remember Kendall-Smith he was the yellow coward who when faced with actually having to go into action decided it was an illegal war and turned into a barrack room lawyer, before crying like a little girl and being sentenced for his cowardice.

Next up: Former SAS member Ben Griffin was allowed to leave the military after telling his commanding officer he was not prepared to return to Iraq because of what he believed were illegal acts being carried out by US forces. Now he has been making a name for him self sucking up to various moonbats on the left, hardly unbiased methinks.

And also we have a bit from a minor backbench MP who is known for his crowing and carping on about the Iraq war: John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington told, Parliament last Monday that the number of absconders had trebled since the invasion with more soldiers "questioning the morality and legality of the occupation".

** I was considering doing a few links to various sites at El Beeb, but screw em. They fuck with the moral of our troops and do the best to spread their leftist new age twaddle as legit news, then have the bare faced nerve to raise the question as to the role of bloggers on the internet. How about to expose BBC lies and half truths for a start. It would not be so bad were it not for the fact that us citizens of the UK if we wish to watch TV have to purchase a tv license that go's towards funding the BBC lies they produce.

More over at USS Neverdock:
http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2006/05/uk-bbc-fabricates-army-desertion-story.html

For more on this check out: http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

And with screenshots in case the liars at El Beeb try some "editing" after the fact, not the first time El Beeb has been caught out that way, Drinking From Home has the pics... http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/05/bbc-report-on-army-desertions.html#links

Lastly we have this more bullshit from the BBC: (Thanks to USS Neverdock again for the link)

The Sunday Times reports.

TWENTY “major conspiracies” by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed.

Yet not a sniff of this on the biased left wing dhimmi El Beeb, still what do you expect from an organisation that is so scared of offending muslims that they wont use either the word muslim or the word terrorist when reporting on jihadist groups here in the UK, in fact in this case, they have not reported it period.

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