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  Ah bejayzez BarryW you are nitpicking hugely there. OlympicTeam GB are riding very high in the nations esteem and euphoria list right now so to tell the troops they are thought of in much the same way is not a bad thing surely. Not at all a PR disaster as you suggest, but tapping into the good feeling of the moment and aligning the troops with that good feeling, so that they feel as one with the current euphoric wave.
  
  Everyone knows without further braintime that they do a different job and require different kinds of courage and committment so we can take that as read...but his words are all in good spirits and the troops will surely take it this way. I would imagine one of the worst things for soldiers overseas must be the feeling that they are forgotten at home..especially in times of Olympic Games or World Cups and so on. To remind them that they are thought of in much the same way as our sporting heroes is a boost.
  
  If one has to watch everything one says for fear of unlikely or unhelpful extrapulations then one might as well stay in bed.

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