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Falklands: Argentina ambassador calls for Britain to hand back 'colonial enclave'
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 05/06/2012 10:31:22 AM PDT by Perdogg

Alicia Castro tried to pull Argentina's immediate neighbours into the dispute, claiming UK diplomatic and business relations could be damaged if the islands were not handed over to Buenos Aires.

She said Las Malvinas – Argentina's name for the Falklands – would be better off if they cut their ties with the UK.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: argentina; falklands; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 05/06/2012 10:31:26 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

when pigs fly


2 posted on 05/06/2012 10:32:50 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Perdogg

Would a stern “No” be enough? If not, carpet bombing of Buenos Aires might certainly suffice.


3 posted on 05/06/2012 10:35:59 AM PDT by sagar
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To: yldstrk
No other response needed!
4 posted on 05/06/2012 10:36:31 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: WellyP

yep


5 posted on 05/06/2012 10:39:15 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Perdogg

Argentine Armed Forces were better trained and equipped back in ‘82 compared to what they got right now. Since then, their country went “pacificist” and now they’re demanding the Brits to hand back the islands to them? This time, the Brits are veterans of both Afganistan and Iraq wars. So if there’s a war, this time, it wouldn’t even last 24 hours despite the Brits making considerable cuts in their defense budget.


6 posted on 05/06/2012 10:40:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: sagar
Would a stern ?No? be enough? If not, carpet bombing of Buenos Aires might certainly suffice.

Hey, hey....that's going a bit too far. I love Buenos Aires and I went there last year. It's far more European than Paris.

7 posted on 05/06/2012 10:42:58 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Perdogg

...and has the Argentina ambassador asked the islanders what they want?


8 posted on 05/06/2012 10:46:08 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001. NEVER FORGET.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Hey, hey....that’s going a bit too far. I love Buenos Aires and I went there last year. It’s far more European than Paris.”

Okay, no carpet bombing. Just winning-hearts-and-minds campaign. wink, wink


9 posted on 05/06/2012 10:46:23 AM PDT by sagar
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To: Perdogg

Well, I can’t say that’s a very surprising thing....

Southern hemisphere’s just getting into winter now, so if the Argies beat on this little tin pot for support for three or four months, they’ll be able to launch their “Liberation” attacks before there’s anybody in Washington with even the faintest interest pulling the UK’s arse out of this bonfire by sending US troops to do what the Brits can no longer handle.

Might as well cut to the chase and hand the entire bloody South Atlantic over to whatever Banana Republic goofball next decides to have an attack of Napoleon Complex.

(Spit on the ground and walk away)


10 posted on 05/06/2012 10:48:37 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet ((257 and a wakeup) Truth, I know, always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition.)
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To: Perdogg

This is a total distraction from the domestic problems being caused by their socialist policies.


11 posted on 05/06/2012 10:48:45 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: MinorityRepublican

the citizens on the falklands are british and want to remain so. plus falkland defenses are much stronger than ‘82. and omoron would send any support (not as he hates the british) to those ilslands in the indian ocean he nemed in his dumbass speech.


12 posted on 05/06/2012 10:51:29 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: Perdogg
or... what???
13 posted on 05/06/2012 10:53:34 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Perdogg

Here’s a funny video that the Argentinian government just released about the Falkland islands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lSlyQp9NAoM

It’s hard to say who’s right on this one. It makes little sense for the British to have political control over a couple of islands just off the coast of Argentina. They should sell it to the Argentinians for a reasonable price and put this matter to rest.


14 posted on 05/06/2012 10:56:42 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

Yes, winter is setting in and weather around the Falklands is going from the usual bad to down right UHLY!.


15 posted on 05/06/2012 10:57:19 AM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“So if there’s a war..”

The Argentinians won’t attack. The military is not running their country anymore.

They will stick to psych warfare painting the British as the oppressive, greedy colonial power in the international stage. In the end, the British will probably hand over the islands willingly because they have gone socialist and those islands probably don’t mean that much to them.


16 posted on 05/06/2012 11:14:16 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Perdogg.
...claiming UK diplomatic and business relations could be damaged if the islands were not handed over to Buenos Aires.
If Cameron were worth a $h!+, he'd bring the UK ambassador home from Argentina for consultation, and have the rest of the UK diplomatic mission pack up everything, then bring them home and break relations.

Or do it my way, and the Argentine leader would choke on her meal or die of some other misadventure, or of natural causes, kinda sudden like.


17 posted on 05/06/2012 11:19:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Under Prime Minister David Cameron? I doubt it. But surely the next one.


18 posted on 05/06/2012 11:20:15 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Perdogg

Where is the ‘General Belgrano’ today?


19 posted on 05/06/2012 11:24:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Guam and the Northern Marianas: Give them Back!


20 posted on 05/06/2012 11:24:49 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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