[bedolido]

Maybe they'd make fun of him in that silly hat.

[Lexington Green]

The risk of combat is what peasants are for.

[Dog]

Go easy on the kid...we wants to go....its the higher ups who don’t have the backbone.

[DManA]

Silly hats are a family weakness.

[rogernz]

the general who approved his deployment, then cancelled it, claimed there were specfic threats. There must be something like Al Qaeda moles inside the british army base or something that they can’t flush out.

[capydick]

the changing situation on the ground exposed the prince to too much danger.

War will do that to ya....

[Red Badger]

Then what about AFGHANISTAN?................

[Red_Devil 232]

The tradition of officers wearing black bowler hats and carrying umbrellas goes back to the First World War.

I thought it would be pith helmets and swager sticks!

[CatoRenasci]

Stick a fork in the House of Windsor, they're done, and the monarchy is done when Liz goes. Nobody wants Charlie to be king (except Camilla), and if Diana's Boys are too fragile to go to war the way Liz's younger son did, then what the bloody h*ll do they need a very expensive monarchy for. The only thing aristocrats were ever good for was their willingness to fight for king and country, and their military prowess. Lose that, even now, and they're just a drag on the economy.

[Argus]

Churchill would have said send him with his unit and al Qaeda be damned.

[Badeye]

The mistake was making public his future deployment. I don’t understand those taking cheap shots at the kid, by all accounts he wanted to serve honorably.

[lilylangtree]

Ridiculous! Let the fellow go. That’s why he joined.

[theFIRMbss]

Maybe Bush can swap-- We'll send Paris to Iraq, they send Harry here . . .

[RockinRight]

They look like they have different fathers...

[TUAN_JIM]

I never believed that he’d be sent. If I were in his unit, I’d be jumping for joy right now. Every jihadist in Iraq would have been gunning for that unit. I think the Brits made the right choice. Good for Harry for wanting to go though.

[avacado]

Just let the kid kick Sean Penn's butt! That will be serviced served!

[jwalsh07]

Which reminds me, has anybody seen or heard from George P. Bush lately? Something tells me he just might have joined the service.

[Cacique]

Monarchies are the biggest welfare recipients on the planet.

[Ancient Drive]

He wants to go and he truly prepared himself to hit the ground running in Iraq. But I think we can all agree the moment he had arrived in Iraq he would have become target numero uno.
too juicy to pass up by the militant terrorists. He will be King someday.

[LetsRok]

Didn’t Al Gore go to Vietnam with a “handler”?

[dr_who_2]

The Queen’s not all that awful and her sons/grandsons, though obnoxious and wierd, are probably quite pleasant most of the time and generally mean well and want everyone in their social sphere to think well of them. But the elephant hiding in the corner is this: Britain’s system of government is a mess. The monarchy isn’t even out of date anymore. It’s a fraud, a sideshow and has been for almost a century. It is not a check on the power of the ruling party in Commons, something that the UK desperately needs.