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The Falklands War


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was worth doing I guess - we were lucky in the end -God knwos what would have happened if their commanders had been any good

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too old lad, too old - my time was in Malaya, Korea (I was a drummer boy with the Fusiliers), Cyprus

 

I volunteered but they don't need air stewards on Vulcan bombers y' see.........................

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Where's Bread 'n' Boro when you need him?? Didn't he fight in the Falklands in 1984?? :lol:

 

Ardiles wanted to.

 

FYP.

 

truthfully its not really a place most of us would want to visit, and it does sound pretty average to live there.

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Where's Bread 'n' Boro when you need him?? Didn't he fight in the Falklands in 1984?? :lol:

 

Ardiles wanted to.

 

FYP.

 

Totally jumping in on an 'old skool' joke, never mind though :lol:

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The whole thing was engineered by Thatcher to ensure an election victory. See whose company made money from the war.

 

Whilst the theory is there, I think it'd be more credible if we'd been the ones doing the invading rather than the defending. I agree that I think she won the election in '83 on the back of the war, but I don't think she 'engineered' it. There's very few people who despise Thatcher more than I do, but even I can't blame her of that one.

 

Then again, some have accused Blair of pushing ahead with the invasion of Iraq with elections in mind.

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The whole thing was engineered by Thatcher to ensure an election victory. See whose company made money from the war.

 

Whilst the theory is there, I think it'd be more credible if we'd been the ones doing the invading rather than the defending. I agree that I think she won the election in '83 on the back of the war, but I don't think she 'engineered' it. There's very few people who despise Thatcher more than I do, but even I can't blame her of that one.

 

Then again, some have accused Blair of pushing ahead with the invasion of Iraq with elections in mind.

 

The intelligence was there for her to put a smaller force on the island to deter them. But then the airport would never have been built by the company with a certain Dennis Thatcher as its director.

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The whole thing was engineered by Thatcher to ensure an election victory. See whose company made money from the war.

 

Whilst the theory is there, I think it'd be more credible if we'd been the ones doing the invading rather than the defending. I agree that I think she won the election in '83 on the back of the war, but I don't think she 'engineered' it. There's very few people who despise Thatcher more than I do, but even I can't blame her of that one.

 

Then again, some have accused Blair of pushing ahead with the invasion of Iraq with elections in mind.

 

The intelligence was there for her to put a smaller force on the island to deter them. But then the airport would never have been built by the company with a certain Dennis Thatcher as its director.

 

Even if that is true, you make it out as though she's the only politician in history who's used her position to 'gain' in other places.

 

They're all as bad as each other.

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The whole thing was engineered by Thatcher to ensure an election victory. See whose company made money from the war.

 

Whilst the theory is there, I think it'd be more credible if we'd been the ones doing the invading rather than the defending. I agree that I think she won the election in '83 on the back of the war, but I don't think she 'engineered' it. There's very few people who despise Thatcher more than I do, but even I can't blame her of that one.

 

Then again, some have accused Blair of pushing ahead with the invasion of Iraq with elections in mind.

 

The intelligence was there for her to put a smaller force on the island to deter them. But then the airport would never have been built by the company with a certain Dennis Thatcher as its director.

 

Even if that is true, you make it out as though she's the only politician in history who's used her position to 'gain' in other places.

 

They're all as bad as each other.

 

 

No I know they are all bad. But the thread is only about the falklands. The Blair administration is just as bad over Iraq and the lies they told.

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The whole thing was engineered by Thatcher to ensure an election victory. See whose company made money from the war.

 

Whilst the theory is there, I think it'd be more credible if we'd been the ones doing the invading rather than the defending. I agree that I think she won the election in '83 on the back of the war, but I don't think she 'engineered' it. There's very few people who despise Thatcher more than I do, but even I can't blame her of that one.

 

Then again, some have accused Blair of pushing ahead with the invasion of Iraq with elections in mind.

 

The intelligence was there for her to put a smaller force on the island to deter them. But then the airport would never have been built by the company with a certain Dennis Thatcher as its director.

 

It's more like they never believed they would invade, than some Mr Burns-esq master plan.

 

I'm not saying Thatcher wasn't ruthless enough to do something like that (frankly most politicians would be if they were 100% sure they'd get away with it), just that she wasn't stupid enough to start a war that we very well might have lost.

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read any of the players books - or if your old enough - remember the reactions at the time

 

the Govt were caught right on the hop - The Argies had talked big for decades and never did owt - if they'd waited another year until ew'd sold off the aircraft carriers and retired the Vulcans we'd have been up shit creek all right

 

The airport is an interesting issue - if we'd upgraded it we could have sent some troops there at short notice - butthen after the takeover tehy could have based their Mirages there 'n aaal - which would have had ol' Adml. Sandy "Burma Star" Woodward operating off Singapore

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Been to The Falklands many times. The first was in '83. I even spent the whole of 1990 down there.

 

A barren place with lovely people.

 

I met on a couple of occasions the lad from Whitley Bay who was killed on Ardent - Simon Lawson. Not a friend, by any stretch of imagination, but the brother of someone I knew.

 

Who knows if the loss of life was worth the fight to keep the islands British. I suppose that without a show of strength, every man and his dog around the world would have been claiming rocks and islands 'owned' by Britain. And just because the nearest nation to the Falklands is Argentina, doesn't necessarily mean that Argentina should own them, surely?

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