Prince Harry on the front line.

Well here is a little topic for debate. Should Harry go "once more into the breach dear friends", like his illustrious ancestor? Or should he be pulled out?

Well he is a trained soldier you say. Therefore its his job to go. Yes that is true. However where did the leak he was in Afghanistan come from?

It was published first in an Australian magazine, but no one cares about celebrity in Australia. Aussies like to live their own lives. It was picked up by our American friends who cant keep anything quiet and they ran with it.

The press in this instance are a bit like Tony and Gordon having a little whisper session between "two gentlemen", and two minutes after, both their spin doctors have leaked the gossip. In this instance though it was to make a bit of money with the scoop.

It is dangerous and foolhardy to publish any information about battlefields, and who is there and in what strength. My reckoning is, we give our foe to much information, because he can watch the T.V too.

Now it is the governments idea to show everybody how well we are doing to justify their original orders to invade a place. Its called spin.

But it is not the politician in the "rock and hard place" situation though. It's the people on the front line. Blair and Brown got to visit for less than a day, where as the soldiers have to be there for months at a time. But then Brown and Blair made sure the press didn't leak that, because it was there own arses on the line that time.

I have to stick my two pennies in here though. If Harry was on the front line for 10 weeks, why was there press around to follow his every move? If he was "just a soldier", and I am sorry if that's a little derogatory to soldiers, because I don't mean it to be (we are the best army in the world!) . Where was everyone else's press contingents? That's right. They don't have them.

Now we all know how good the British soldier is. We know how great they are with out having to say it. Well I will say it this time. Going to places they aren't liked to bring some stability to a region that wont thank them; to come home traumatised or in body bags because some jumped up politician isn't strong enough to say no, we shouldn't interfere. (I talk about Iraq here, by the way, not Afghanistan). They do it because they are proud of what their regiments stand for. They follow orders, and will die carrying those orders out.

Well Harry is no coward, he wanted to go. He is there now, and he is taking the risk like every other soldier out there. It has been his dream since he was a boy. But he should not have gone with the press!

He should have insisted he remain anonymous, for his own safety and to create less of a target. It would then have been a major coup for him and the army once his tour had finished to then tell the world.

Today after the Americans stupidly told the world, he is in greater danger, as is his men. What terrorist in their warped, bigoted, narrow minds wouldn't go out of their way to be the one to capture or kill the Queen's son. The top Brass should also have made sure the press wasn't hanging around. The Press wouldn't give a dam how it happened or why if he was hurt or killed. They would publish it for the scoop and more money.