British SAS Troops Rescue Two Fellow Soldier…Against the Orders of Their “Superiors”

A British soldier (circled) escapes in flames from his vehicle after it is attacked by a mob in the first phase of the rescue mission.

Further proof and validation in my belief that our (and our allies) Soldiers are the finest and best men that our nations have to offer…and the petty and small men that play with their lives like game pieces on a board from the safety of their lofty thrones in D.C. or Parliament are the very worst that our nations have to offer and few, if any of them are worth even pissing on:

The SAS launched a daring mission to rescue two of its own men held hostage in Iraq against the orders of the Ministry of Defence, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The elite unit was pushed to the brink of mutiny after it was banned from saving the SAS soldiers captured by militants because to do so would embarrass the Government.

The astonishing edict drove SAS officers close to mass resignation, according to a hardhitting report by the Tory MP Adam Holloway, a former Guards officer.

The SAS Lieutenant-Colonel on the ground, believing that ‘politically motivated’ commanders in the UK were ‘unable to make rational and effective decisions’, sent in a rescue team anyway – fearful that within hours the captured men could have been spirited away or executed.

The rescuers blasted their way into the police station in Basra where the two soldiers were being held and saved them.

Details of the incident in 2005 expose the shameful way the Armed Forces have become politicised under Labour – with political spin put before soldiers’ lives.

Mr Holloway’s explosive account is supported by General Sir Mike Jackson, who was head of the Army at the time but only learned of the scandal later.

General Jackson last night made clear his disgust at the way soldiers were asked to sacrifice their men for political reasons, shattering the sacred military covenant that no man is left behind on the battlefield.

He told the Mail: ‘The story as you relate it chimes with my memory of the events. It was not only a brave but a very necessary operation to release those two captured soldiers. The British Army looks after its own. Underline that three times.’

The mouse pad on my desk right now has The Soldier’s Creed inscribed on it. It includes, “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” What part of NEVER do these cowards in Washington D.C. and London not understand?

Whomever gave that order to abandon those two Soldiers should be dragged out to the nearest brick wall and shot to death by a Military firing squad.

The SAS Lieutenant-Colonel who saved his men? Deserves his nation’s highest honor and medal for doing so.

My disdain for politicians grows by the hour.