At war again?
#66
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Re: At war again?
I wonder if the Budget on Wednesday will be adjusted quickly to get a little bit more from everyone to pay for this new war?
#68
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Wonder if they'll have to fix him up with a council house as compensation ?
I'm sure there's some nice ones around Liverpool where he'd be very welcome.
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Re: At war again?
Clearly this is another episode in The War on Terror and the new administrations in the US / UK et al (as opposed to Bush/Blair & co) are trying to stabilize the trouble and rid the world off this evil tyrant.
Please take the time to look here for the bigger picture http://str8upgold.com/documentaries/...-morality.html
Please take the time to look here for the bigger picture http://str8upgold.com/documentaries/...-morality.html
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Re: At war again?
Clearly this is another episode in The War on Terror and the new administrations in the US / UK et al (as opposed to Bush/Blair & co) are trying to stabilize the trouble and rid the world off this evil tyrant.
Please take the time to look here for the bigger picture http://str8upgold.com/documentaries/...-morality.html
Please take the time to look here for the bigger picture http://str8upgold.com/documentaries/...-morality.html
I will give Cameron this. He was early up to bat, and as he said, if we don't go in and help the poor sods being butchered by Gaddafi, then what's the point of having the UN? They didn't go in to Rwanda, and look what happened there.
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Lets not forget Srebrenica eh? The Dutch hardly displayed their finest qualities during that particularly horrific episode!
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I still think this isn’t for real – it’s a weird game and not really happening. I heard about Belgium and Qatar joining in the fun, that made me blink.
Oil or not, it’s just a large chunk of desert in north Africa, ruled by a madman for 40 years.
Africa is bouncing with madmen, and it saddens me to say that there are a few nearer home as well. Those poor pilots taking off from Norfolk must wonder whether the madman they’re going to bomb is any less certifiable than the people sending them off from those green fields with bombs strapped to their planes.
Oil or not, it’s just a large chunk of desert in north Africa, ruled by a madman for 40 years.
Africa is bouncing with madmen, and it saddens me to say that there are a few nearer home as well. Those poor pilots taking off from Norfolk must wonder whether the madman they’re going to bomb is any less certifiable than the people sending them off from those green fields with bombs strapped to their planes.
#73
Re: At war again?
I still think this isn’t for real – it’s a weird game and not really happening. I heard about Belgium and Qatar joining in the fun, that made me blink.
Oil or not, it’s just a large chunk of desert in north Africa, ruled by a madman for 40 years.
Africa is bouncing with madmen, and it saddens me to say that there are a few nearer home as well. Those poor pilots taking off from Norfolk must wonder whether the madman they’re going to bomb is any less certifiable than the people sending them off from those green fields with bombs strapped to their planes.
Oil or not, it’s just a large chunk of desert in north Africa, ruled by a madman for 40 years.
Africa is bouncing with madmen, and it saddens me to say that there are a few nearer home as well. Those poor pilots taking off from Norfolk must wonder whether the madman they’re going to bomb is any less certifiable than the people sending them off from those green fields with bombs strapped to their planes.
I'm afraid I can't praise Cameron for his actions so far. He came to power promising to avoid getting into world military actions a la Blair, but here we are bombing another country into the stone age. I know there was a UN resolution passed this time, but seeing as the two major hawks were Sarkozy and Cameron - two politicians seeing their ratings slump at home - it doesn't mean it's been a wise move. In fact the Tory government seem to have consistently got this conflict wrong from the start eg claiming G had gone off to Venezuela, that strange incident with the SAS bodyguards etc. I'm just hoping this latest stage is over within a short time (although I'm not over-optimistic). Otherwise we could see a long drawn-out civil war in Libya, which would be disastrous for the population. I still think Cameron has been keen to provoke this war in the hope of notching a win over a dictator and thus being able to smear Labour as the dictator's friend. He knows his economic policies are proving disastrous for Britain (not that Gordon's were any good either) and that the Lib dems will implode before the year is out. Thus, he's taken this gamble. The only plus point is that it stops him doing the same over Bahrein, Sudan etc. The UN will have learnt their lesson after this I think. Or is that misplaced hope
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Nice if we could supply them with a few containers full of (hem, hem) agricultural equipment, you know, tractors capable of throwing a guided turnip, high velocity shovels.... plus of course some agricultural advisors, nice boys from Hereford..... got their own wellies 'n all.
#75
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That is still one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen. We all watched on the news the blue berets helping to load people onto buses, separating the men from the women and children and nobody did anything to stop it.