Dead soldiers campaigning for the Tories

It seems to me that there is a different grieving mother paraded through the media everyday. The mothers are understandably grieving for their sons that have died in battle. These are the mothers of fallen soldiers. Soldiers that have given their lives in the service of their country. This is a fact regardless of the reasons for the wars they serve in.
This is a new phenomenon in this country-grieving mothers berating government policy in the names of their dead children. This has strangely coincided with The Sun's decision to back the Conservatives in the coming General Election. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp appears to be using these mothers for their own ends. Strange how an Australian has the power to try and affect British public opinion. Not that the British people have taken it at face value. Public opinion was firmly behind Gordon Brown, when The Sun launched a story about his untidy handwriting on condolence letters- most people thought the fact that he wrote them and his partial blindness to be a mitigating circumstance.
Growing up in a forces family with a father and two brothers in the army, I find complaining families a little disconcerting. The British army , is a volunteer army. A soldier is expected to follow the commands of his superiors, and the democratically elected government without question. This is a prerequisite, it is not a recent rule, it is an integral part of the job. Wanting to fight in a war, wanting to kill another human being isn't, but is not unknown.
Most young soldiers are quite keen to put all of their training into action and join their comrades in the battlefield, they are soldiers after all.
As civilians we find the idea of soldiers dying upsetting and hopefully war distasteful, but the reality is that soldiers understand that it is an inevitable part of what they do.
American soldiers may be another matter, as some would argue that the American military has a high percentage of recruits from socially disadvantaged groups-that is not the case here in the UK. Opportunities do exist in this country, and our ghettoes are actually not that bad-I've lived in them.
A British recruit enters the military with his eyes open about the benefits and the dangers.
These soldiers should be respected, they should earn more, they should have more help upon their return, and they must be remembered for the ultimate sacrifice that they have given for the rest of us, who cannot or will not do what they have done.
What mustn't be done though, is that the media(and political puppeteers) use their memory and speak for them against their wishes- a soldier may disagree with a war, but not disagree that he must fight in it.
Soldiers, soldiers mothers, and politics just do not mix. Object to the war, but don't object that soldiers fight in that war.