Court Martial Attorney – Afghan mission will fail – soldier
(UKPA)
A British soldier facing court martial for refusing to return to Afghanistan has said that the army’s mission will fail and troops should be withdrawn from the country.
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, 27, from the Royal Logistic Corp handed in a letter of protest to Downing Street.
He said that the Nimrod crash in 2006 was a key event which left him disillusioned with the war during his first tour of Afghanistan.
L/Cpl Glenton said: “Carrying coffins from where they were stored by forklift truck down to the medical centre, that’s certainly something that has stayed with me, humping bodies around on this forklift truck.”
Taliban forces and the British Army are simply “grinding each other down” and achieving nothing, he said.
The soldier went on: “I don’t believe our cause is just. I think it’s adversely affecting the Afghan people as well as the British Army and their families. I think it has become part of the problem rather than the solution.”
He is facing court martial on Monday for desertion and could face up to two years in a civilian jail.
L/Cpl Glenton, who lives in York, called on Gordon Brown to withdraw British troops from Afghanistan because he believes their mission will fail.
He said: “I know that the Afghan people are very resilient. I can’t see us getting much further.”
July was one of the bloodiest months for British forces with a series of fatalities. But the soldier said he felt obliged to speak out against the conflict despite the risk of damaging morale.
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