JohnP wrote:
And by the way, when it comes to Israel/Palestine/whatever-it DID belong to the British, unless I have my facts wrong
Yes, you do , it was a mandate territory,ie under british protection,unfortunatly jewish terrorists kept blowing up british soldiers(the same one's who'd jus liberated them from belsen etc) so "we" got out of dodge....in much the same way "you" got out of Saigon......
JohnP wrote:
Oh, and btw...America is still there...if that is what you mean by "going home with its tail between its legs". UK pulled out of Basra. US increased forces.
Yes,very observent, while the US forces took years to work out deals with local militias pay off, UK forces knew this from the start,hence the fact that the southern provinces,as you jolly well know,are now in a position to be handed over to INA and Iraqi authority. Britians forces also recognised that they were a cause of many of the terrorist attrocities,ie targets,remove the targets,remove the bombings.....Also,as an add on here,as Im sure your aware John ,the area of basra province came firmly within the grasp of US forces in GW1 (btw, French troops played a pivotol role on the left flank then) ,who unfortunatly stood by while the uprising Bush had called for among the Shia population was bruttaly crushed by Saddam,with memories of that time,is it any wonder Allied forces were not greeted with flowers?
JohnP wrote:
If by "making a mess" you mean taking down a government that was quite content making dissidents "disappear" in Soviet fashion,
Hmmm,sorry,for a minute I thought you were talking about rendition and Gitmo......
LATINA wrote:
Thank you. If we wanted to stop those planes from hitting the World Trade blds. our air force had the capacity to do so but for some strange reason we couldn't or wouldn't.
rubbish,even your precious micheal moore concides there were only 2,yes two fighter jets on aerial standby at that time.........
Patrycja19 wrote:
US has dragged countries closely associated with it into the horrific mess,
Bull crap.. these other countries have a choice.. their leaders make the choice
just as ours does and so on.. so dont make it sound like the U.S. Put handcuffs
on them and made them go.. and FYI Terrorism has been a problem for a long time
its just that it hit home in 2001 and America said Enough!
unfortunatly true,Blair was told by Bush many times,in the nicest possible way ,that British help,although appreciated wasnt needed for the "liberation" of Iraq. Blair wanted in on the glory though with fresh memories of kosovo and Seirra leonne....