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To: Old Teufel Hunden

1—You mentioned France, so I thought I’d remind you you havent defended it for 45 years. I am never sure of some FR’s knowledge of Europe and history, so I play safe.

2—Britain is the one US ally in Europe (along with France) that dosent need the US. Your presence in the UK has been redundant since 1991 if we are being frank. If you really think Britain cannot defend itself, then the ignorance of our military capabilities is yours. We still have a sizeable armed force, are one of the five major nuclear powers and are one of the few countries outwith the US who can conduct world operations.

3—Yes, the British and French have done a bang up job in Libya. Its others who arent up to scratch. As I keep pointing out, the UK and France have and are reinforcing air and sea power all the time. We just sent more planes last week for example.

4—Running out?. Britain and France have and are supplying the rebels from our own stocks.

5—No, you will happily spill blood for your own bullsh*t wars for oil. Like 2003.


43 posted on 07/18/2011 12:06:39 PM PDT by the scotsman (I)
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To: the scotsman
" so I play safe."

So playing it safe means covering your posterior after reading something into my statement? Call it what it is, you were wrong and have a reading comprehension problem apparently.

"If you really think Britain cannot defend itself, then the ignorance of our military capabilities is yours."

By all accounts, this Libya operation has been cluster f@#!@#. I have no wish to see Gadaffi on this side of the sod and I hope that whoever takes over is not going to install a caliphate. Your military capability along with the rest of NATO has been on display and quite frankly it's lacking. You now have no aircraft carrier, are in process of getting one online in 2018 and are going to freakin' sell the other one you have planned to build. Yeah, I'm aware of your military and it's being sold off to the highest bidder so everyone can have "free" healthcare. Oh, there was a time when England would not have needed anyone else to do a bang up job in Libya. They would have been able to topple Gadaffi themselves.

"No, you will happily spill blood for your own bullsh*t wars for oil. Like 2003."

You claim my ignorance of your military capabilities. Yet, you are the one showing ignorance. Do you know how much oil we get from Iraq? Very little. We get the vast amount of our oil imports from Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. No American companies got special treatments for those oil contracts. They were put up for bidding on the open market. According to this article, BP won a huge oil contract in 2009 from Iraq: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200963093615637434.html

So I guess when they're not polluting up our Gulf Coast region your oil company is benefitting in the oil for blood scheme.
45 posted on 07/18/2011 12:37:58 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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