To: Cheetahcat; americanophile
and in 1982 to transport British troops to the Falkland Islands.Not true. The QE 2 was used as a transport. As it was, the US took great pains not to appear to be aiding Britain during the Falklands war. All our help was covert and backdoor stuff, especially satellite and communications intel.
40 posted on
03/11/2009 2:13:25 PM PDT by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
44 posted on
03/11/2009 2:16:41 PM PDT by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: buccaneer81
“Not true. The QE 2 was used as a transport. As it was, the US took great pains not to appear to be aiding Britain during the Falklands war. All our help was covert and backdoor stuff, especially satellite and communications intel.”
That is what I thought!Thank you.
70 posted on
03/11/2009 7:19:26 PM PDT by
Cheetahcat
(Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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