The last time the US had 10,000 "trainers" and "advisors" in a war zone was 1962 and the country was Vietnam: before long those advisors became 500,000 US troops fighting a war.

This will be the last Christmas for some British soldiers and the blood of those killed will be on the hands of David Cameron and the government waging a war they know to be futile and lost.

"It is not worth wasting one more life in Afghanistan. The only rational policy now is to leave quickly. This is the only cause for which further lives should be risked."

She was proud to be a soldier, but did Corporal Channing Day expect when she joined the British army that she would be sent to fight in illegal or unjustified wars of occupation?

If the killings continue at the present rate, another 100 British soldiers and untold Afghans will die in this pointless operation before final withdrawal planned for 2014.

We must cut through the noise and expose those who try to use Malala's suffering to rehabilitate a murderous occupation and a cruel and illegal drone war.

Osborne is said to have asked how the British deployment can be justified to the public for the next two years, amid continuing casualties and doubts about the corrupt Afghan government.

The west will have to beat a retreat from Afghanistan, the only question, is will it be like America's scramble from Vietnam in 1975, or the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989?

Video: Paul Flynn MP speaks on the lies about Afghanistan told by the UK government, and urges people to join him and others at Stop the War Coalition's Naming the Dead protest on 7 October.

I remember cuing up a US Predator strike before deciding the computer screen wasn't depicting a Taliban insurgent burying an improvised explosive device in the road; rather, a child playing in the dirt.

This week another British soldier is likely to die. His death will be greeted with heroic rhetoric, implying that his sacrifice is keeping this country safe. That will be a lie.

David Cameron has never mentioned the name of a single Afghan killed, the majority of whom have been ordinary civilians caught in the middle of the West's war on one of the world's poorest countries.

The "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers and police show American soldiers how much Afghans hate them and symbolise all that is wrong with their mission in Afghanistan.

Only one in ten thinks the lives lost and the cost of war has been 'worth it'. More than half say all troops should be brought home now.

Support is flooding in for Paul Flynn, the MP who on 18 September 2012 was expelled from parliament for saying the government was lying about Afghanistan.

MP Paul Flynn says government ministers are using British soldiers as human shields for ministers' reputations by sending them to die in vain in a war in Afghanistan which is lost.