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This isn't a go at the armed forces, but the reasoning behind a lot of stuff going on at the moment.
Iraq - were they really a threat to the UK or even our 'allies'?
Afghanistan - as above (as a country, not a handfull of extremists)
Is this not really about oil reserves, the real reasoning behind the warmongering? Or are we just sucking up to the Yanks. Have we become too politically dependent on them?
Costa Rica abandoned their armed forces some years ago and invested it inwardly into the country. They are now the most wealthy and prosperous country in that particular neck of the woods. I'm not saying we completely get rid of the armed forces, just reel them in considerably in accordance with a realistic risk assessment.
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« Reply #1 on: 04 February 2010, 02:08 AM » |
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Iraq=no
Afghanistan=maybe Bin Laden is/was a loony,but politics will always dictate our future.
Blair,and Bush will be accountable for world terrorism.
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Diana Prince
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« Reply #2 on: 04 February 2010, 09:23 AM » |
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You're questioning Afghanstan not being a threat? You need your tv remote getting stuck on Sky News for a few days. That place is rammed packed full of mentalists. Why we don't just put a bloody big wall round that place, I don't know.
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« Reply #3 on: 04 February 2010, 10:12 AM » |
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You're questioning Afghanstan not being a threat? You need your tv remote getting stuck on Sky News for a few days. That place is rammed packed full of mentalists. Why we don't just put a bloody big wall round that place, I don't know.
Yes quite right - sky news is a very balanced news service owned by the Murdoch empire who also own the far right news broadcaster Fox News! In fact I wouldn't trust any media to give a balanced opinion about Afghanistan - all seems like propaganda and indoctination - a tool very successfully used during the Great War and World War Two (and not forgetting the 45 minute Weapons of Mass Destruction!!!) |
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« Reply #4 on: 04 February 2010, 10:17 AM » |
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Tricky one really. Who to believe, Chris Amos or Sky News? Hmmm.
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« Reply #5 on: 04 February 2010, 11:05 AM » |
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Tricky one really. Who to believe, Chris Amos or Sky News? Hmmm.
Whatever - but if you want to be indoctrinated into what the media wants you to believe (especially the Murdoch family) then thats fine with me, as its your life and your beliefs (or should that be the media's beliefs) But one last question and one I keep repeating and no one seems to answer (now why is that???) when have I ever lied on this forum? |
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« Reply #6 on: 04 February 2010, 12:46 PM » |
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Chris, please don't patronise me, you'll just end up looking a cúnt.
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« Reply #7 on: 04 February 2010, 12:48 PM » |
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Chris, please don't patronise me, you'll just end up looking a cúnt.
no you just made yourself look like one with that posting! so you believe everything new programmes tell you, no matter what? |
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« Reply #8 on: 04 February 2010, 12:54 PM » |
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Patronising people is not good form.....but Sky news is absolute garbage. Their fact-checking is continuously shown to be almost non-existent and they carry serious political bias. It's not on a par with Fox, but it's nearly useless as anything other than a source for headlines.
Ultimately, both wars are a result of Straussian political theory in application. Due to people like Wolfowitz taking Strauss's political philosophy as sacrosanct we are currently embroiled in two very costly and very badly planned wars. Iraq was always going to go the way it has, but then that is the point if you understand anything of Straussian theory. Afghanistan had a genuine point to it but was so badly mismanaged as to make it almost criminal.
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« Reply #9 on: 04 February 2010, 12:55 PM » |
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I hate politics is aload of boring shite , our lads shouldnt be out there but while they are deserve our support.
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« Reply #10 on: 04 February 2010, 01:00 PM » |
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Our lads shouldnt be out there but while they are deserve our support.
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« Reply #11 on: 04 February 2010, 01:15 PM » |
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I hate politics is aload of boring shite
Perhaps, but it controls every aspect of your life. |
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« Reply #12 on: 04 February 2010, 03:35 PM » |
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Chris, please don't patronise me, you'll just end up looking a cúnt.
no you just made yourself look like one with that posting! so you believe everything new programmes tell you, no matter what? Yes course I do. Now will stop you being a sanctamonous prick? |
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« Reply #13 on: 04 February 2010, 04:05 PM » |
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You're questioning Afghanstan not being a threat? You need your tv remote getting stuck on Sky News for a few days. That place is rammed packed full of mentalists. Why we don't just put a bloody big wall round that place, I don't know.
That's like saying Liverpool is full of smackheads. What you are seeing byenlarge is a response to their country being occupied by foreign forces. The people who our lads are fighting with now were no threat internationally. |
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« Reply #14 on: 04 February 2010, 04:14 PM » |
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That's like saying Liverpool is full of smackheads.
Eh? But it is. |
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« Reply #15 on: 04 February 2010, 04:15 PM » |
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That's like saying Liverpool is full of smackheads.
Eh? But it is. I asked for that. I meant they make up a very small percentage of the population |
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« Reply #16 on: 04 February 2010, 04:26 PM » |
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That's like saying Liverpool is full of smackheads.
Eh? But it is. Come on be fair they have shíte loads of purple wheelie bins too , with purple wheelie bins you can see how that swung the capital of culture vote there way. |
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« Reply #17 on: 04 February 2010, 05:17 PM » |
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Chris, please don't patronise me, you'll just end up looking a cúnt.
no you just made yourself look like one with that posting! so you believe everything new programmes tell you, no matter what? Yes course I do. Now will stop you being a sanctamonous prick? I really do feel sorry for you - believing mis-information and biased news reports (no matter which news programme one watches) - indoctrination at its best and look it does work - on you! |
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« Reply #18 on: 04 February 2010, 05:19 PM » |
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Chris, please, for the love of God, will you just shut the fúck up & take a lithium. You've got to be boring yourself now, surely.
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« Reply #19 on: 04 February 2010, 05:21 PM » |
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Chris, please, for the love of God, will you just shut the fúck up & take a lithium. You've got to be boring yourself now, surely.
Stay Calm dear, sky news says so!!! |
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« Reply #20 on: 04 February 2010, 05:22 PM » |
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You're like one of those born againers aren't you with this calm down stuff aren't you? I presume they told you about chanting to stop the voices in therapy did they?
Once a mentalist, always a mentalist.
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« Reply #21 on: 04 February 2010, 08:28 PM » |
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Iraq was clearly an outrage.
We should have invaded France instead:
1. It's tradition
2. They're French
3. Usually if you wait about 5 minutes, the French will give you enough valid reasons to kick seven shades out of the lot of them (eg being French)
4. It's nearer
5. It wouldn't have cost as long
6. We could have been done and dusted in a couple of days, but kept the best bit as British territory thus
a) providing cheap holiday destinations
b) providing ongoing reasons to randomly batter the French
Blair should be lined up against the wall and shot for his short-sightedness. My vote goes readily to any party with invading France in their manifesto.
Except them fascists.
Or that other lot.
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« Reply #22 on: 04 February 2010, 08:30 PM » |
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4b
We'd be reducing out military carbon footprint
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« Reply #23 on: 04 February 2010, 08:35 PM » |
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You're like one of those born againers aren't you with this calm down stuff aren't you? I presume they told you about chanting to stop the voices in therapy did they?
Once a mentalist, always a mentalist.
Are you running out of put-downs as that was very weak Diana? |
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« Reply #24 on: 04 February 2010, 08:35 PM » |
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I for one agree with the France thing
and I like the names of there towns ie Breast
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