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Greece boat disaster: Up to 500 people still missing says UN
BBC ^ | 6/16/23 | Nick Beake in Kalamata, George Wright & Paul Kirby

Posted on 06/17/2023 5:10:46 PM PDT by CFW

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Why is it Greece’s fault? Blame should go to the smugglers and the country from where they sailed.


21 posted on 06/17/2023 7:48:09 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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22 posted on 06/17/2023 7:51:41 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Rummyfan; rxh4n1

It sailed from Tobruk, Libya.


23 posted on 06/17/2023 8:07:22 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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“We Came. We Saw. He Died”

How did that work out?


24 posted on 06/17/2023 8:07:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Great line from the greatest Western ever made!

Vow to endeavor to persevere.


25 posted on 06/17/2023 8:12:36 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: dfwgator

In a failed state sprouting slave markets and launching leaky boats overcrowded with Africans toward Europe, which was entirely predictable. I am hardly a North African specialist, but even little old me predicted that before we commenced bombing on behalf of the terrorist Barbarians of Benghazi and Slavers of Misurata.

I can’t forget what one dismayed Libyan said to a journalist a couple of years later: “Before, we had one big Gadaffi. Now we have a thousand little Gadaffis.”


26 posted on 06/17/2023 8:16:17 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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Look at all those women and children!


oSurvivors of latest tragical shipwreck prepare to board a bus to transfer to Athens at the port of Kalamata, Greece, Friday, June 16, 2023. The round-the-clock effort continued off the coast of southern Greece despite little hope of finding survivors or bodies after none have been found since Wednesday, when 78 bodies were recovered and 104 people were rescued. (John Liakos/InTime News via AP)

27 posted on 06/17/2023 9:28:08 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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Fighting age males. No females or children here:

Or here:

Or here:

Or here:

Whar da women at!?


28 posted on 06/17/2023 9:38:45 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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“It sailed from Tobruk, Libya.”

Great work there by Obama and Clinton, eh? Qadaffi’s big mistake was renouncing his WMDs and tilting toward us. If he’d kept up the “Death to America” shtick he’d still be alive.


29 posted on 06/17/2023 9:58:23 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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If there were even any women and children aboard the ship, I suspect the men pushed them to the side, grabbed every piece of debris that floated, and saved themselves while the women and children drowned.


30 posted on 06/17/2023 10:00:28 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: rxh4n1

Exactly. What kind of “teachable moment” (to quote Obama’s excreble phrase) was that? What message did we send? Again, neocons are so stupid.


31 posted on 06/17/2023 10:16:15 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: rxh4n1

Maybe not. He could very well have been removed from power even sooner during the Bush administration. After 9/11 there was little patience for Arab dictators with WMDs. He was allowed to stay because he promised that he would behave. Of course, Obama had different plans.


32 posted on 06/18/2023 3:42:19 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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Seems the folks in the Med have figured out how to prevent illegals from entering their countries. Just sink the boats.

Too bad we don’t have a solution for our Southern border.


33 posted on 06/18/2023 11:49:52 PM PDT by octex
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