[Old Teufel Hunden]

" 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.

[the scotsman]

1—We have three aircraft carriers.

2—We have had free healthcare since 1948.

3—My oil remark was a sarcastic one regarding the fact that Republicans/conservatives Stateside are bashing Obama for a pointless war of oil, but were quite happy to support Bush in 2003 in a war that frankly wasnt necessary. My remark is sarcasm about the justifications for 2003, I am well aware of America’s actual oil intake.

4—BP is half-American. Oh, and its not owned by the Queen either.

[the scotsman]

Addendum:

The last post should read:

‘1—We had three aircraft carriers, we now have one. Not zero, as you suggest’

(last posted posted without finishing change to first line. Typed a line, deleted and posted without reinserting.)

[the scotsman]

It is clear that US companies in general got favourable treatment in Iraq. So much so its known that Blair talked to Bush about it circa 2004-05 because of complaints from UK companies that US companies were getting preferential treatment to a ridiculous degree.

[the scotsman]

You said, as an American, that you are tired of America defending England, France and Germany.

So what exactly was I supposed to read into that?.