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To: madvlad
I forgot to mention that pathetic crawl across the Atlantic in 1982 to retake the Falklands from a 4rth rate military.

I'm starting to worry about your sanity. Granted, the Argentineans were using D-list troops, but they were excellently sited with weeks to prepare. And their airforce was superb - it was like fighting the IAF, but without the arab military innovation of using human shields.

Meanwhile the British were fighting over an 8000 mile supply line in the coldest livable part of the South Atlantic. The word you're looking for isn't 'pathetic crawl', it's 'tour-de-force'. An amazing feat of arms.

15 posted on 11/16/2007 9:50:58 AM PST by agere_contra (Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
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To: agere_contra

You’re talking to a man who thinks that the UK has lost so many wars that its ‘hard to count’ mate. Be afraid, be very afraid :-) Reality is irrelevant to this guy.


16 posted on 11/16/2007 9:54:15 AM PST by uksupport1
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To: agere_contra

Yeah right.

No. I think pathetic crawl sums it up about right.

MV


18 posted on 11/16/2007 10:11:02 AM PST by madvlad (A republican at age 20 has no heart; a democrat at age 50 has no brain. Brains are better.)
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To: agere_contra; uksupport1
You should give this jerk as little credibility as he gives the facts. Michael Yon is a great source for facts, and he repeatedly remarks on the bravery and heroism of British troops in Afghanistan.

If there is any weakening of British military skill and resolve, the same can be found in any Western nation - including America. But by necessity, and in the face of radical Islam, the future will see a more determined and united West, despite insignificant morons posting on this forum.

23 posted on 11/16/2007 10:21:08 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: agere_contra
In the darkest hour for all of Europe, only one nation stood up and continued as a bulwark to Naziism: Great Britain.

The US, in which I can take pride in later in the war, dithered with isolationism and surreptitious support.

Alone and unaided in arms, Great Britain and the Commonwealth kept Hitler from consolidating a continental victory that would have served as something the US would never have unseated.

Churchill felt saved the morning the news hit him of the Pearl Harbor attack on the US. But many nations and many people were saved by the invincible valor of the United Kingdom standing alone against the biggest war machine of all time.

That is what sensible people know of your nation.

27 posted on 11/16/2007 10:26:35 AM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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