by Englishman 12 Replies latest social current
BTW EMAN,
Is there a bigger point behind this thread? Beyond trying to create strife and dissention I mean?
I have to wonder since the post is slanted and one sided to begin with. I mean, it's not like you included any personal stake behind the question. What? You feeling chipper today?
Not that there is anything wrong with politics and opinions. But such posts made just for the sake of insult is well...juvenile IMO.
Who bloody cares?
When Britain went to war with Argentina, our "friend" was nowhere to be seen.
Oh really Simon? I remember it differently, so does a BBC documentary:
"But British and American officials say in the BBC documentary that Washington provided the latest Sidewinder missiles at 48 hours' notice after the British task force came under fire.
Lord Renwick, a senior diplomat in the British embassy in Washington, who went on to become ambassador, told the programme: "My role was to go along to the Pentagon and ask them for 105 Sidewinder missiles. These were the very latest version, which were far more accurate than the earlier versions and we wanted them delivered within 48 hours. That meant stripping part of the frontline US air force of those missiles and sending them to the South Atlantic."
Lord Powell of Bayswater, Lady Thatcher's key foreign affairs adviser, said that Britain would have lost the war without such assistance. "
--- from Guardian Unlimited
