It astounds me the extent to which affiliated individuals in the UK, some of its businesses and its media do not understand the Ministry of Defence. Its actually shameful to observe the inaccuracy of reporting from Iraq. I have had British Army Generals and their Brigadiers stand in front of me personally and tell me it isn’t like they report it on TV, instead, the fighting in Basra even now is hand-to-hand, bloody and terrifying. When you are actually looking in to the eyes of one of these guys the difficulty and brutality of their daily working lives is perceptibly communicated. The media simply fails to communicate this information not just to the population but it should be remembered to the politicians who will react to the public’s response to those images and probably not a lot else. And why should they, aren’t politicians there to do what the people want? If we don’t even know about it, how are we to expect progress towards a solution. The media should act more responsibly. And when it is caught out then sacking the Director General of the BBC is not nearly enough, what real change have their Board of Directors made?

Instead of the BBC's clever dramatic reconstructions of events at Number 10 how about some sensitive and sympathetic treatment of the welfare of injured Veterans. Such coverage would ensure they receive the right standard of care and help to mitigate the frenzied press engendered hostility to War ending up being aimed at Veterans, which it so clearly is from reports 'in the media'. Hospital wings up and down the country are being commandeered for the treatment of Veterans staffed by MoD doctors. This is the real story and this is what's really going on. I thought Charity started at home.