You’ve got to admire Prince Harry in his fight to be deployed to Iraq in the face of insurgent groups wanting his head and the British government questioning whether or not he should go.

“If they said, ‘No you can’t go front line then I wouldn’t have dragged my sorry arse through Sandhurst,’” he said. “The last thing I want to do is have my soldiers sent away to Iraq or anywhere like, and for me to be held back home twiddling my thumbs thinking, ‘What about David? What about Derek?’ You know?”

The British government feels a dry run was just carried out in southern Iraq that was used to practice how an insurgent group will capture Harry, having warned “we will return him home in a coffin” in a sympathetic web site.  According to ABC News, there are detailed plans for taking him hostage, but we’ve been through all of this before.

Harry wants to go to Iraq.  He must have missed the Secretary of the World Harry Reid’s announcement the war in Iraq was lost.  The prince does not want to be left behind while his brothers in arms travel to Iraq.

Now whether or not his presence in Iraq would enganger fellow British soldiers, that’s another argument entirely and it’s one that has been made several times.  There’s little question insurgent and terrorist groups inside Iraq would like to get their hands on Prince Harry, therefore they would certainly attempt to attack the unit he’s in in order to get that done, but would that change anything?