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Cameron Pledges Total Support to Falklands Islanders
Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/12/11 | Amiel Ungar

Posted on 12/24/2011 5:02:58 PM PST by Eleutheria5

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Iran is going nuclear. The whole Middle East is on the verge of multiple wars, both civil and across borders. And in the middle of all that, the UK wants to go beat up Argentina over some dinky islands?
1 posted on 12/24/2011 5:03:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Do you know anything about the Falkland Islands?


2 posted on 12/24/2011 5:04:51 PM PST by american_ranger
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I remember the first Falklands war. It embarrassed the military junta in power at the time into stepping down.


3 posted on 12/24/2011 5:06:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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The Falkland Islands have been the site of recent discoveries of massive seabottom oil deposits. As a result Argentina is re-asserting their historic but bogus claims on the territorial waters and the islands themselves. Might have something to do with it.
4 posted on 12/24/2011 5:06:38 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Oh, great. We’ll also have Briton lefties chanting “no blood for oil”.


5 posted on 12/24/2011 5:08:54 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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Those islands have NEVER belonged to Argentina, and the islanders are British citizens. They have made, through their own self-determination, that they want to be a part of Great Britain.

Argentina wants to seize the islands just because...they might be able to. And the desires of the Falkland’s inhabitants?

Typical South Americans, the Argentines don’t give a damn.

The United States has more international right to take back our former colony of Cuba, than Argentina has to invade and seize the independent Falkland Islands.


6 posted on 12/24/2011 5:11:20 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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I suppose Argentina suspects the Brits do not have the resources to defend the Falklands.

I also suspect they are right and Britain will toss in the towel. We will see.


7 posted on 12/24/2011 5:13:19 PM PST by Venturer
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Well, let the good times roll.


8 posted on 12/24/2011 5:13:29 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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I would feel a lot more secure if BHO2 wasn’t our President.

R.Reagan backed Margaret Thatcher when the Falkland War erupted. Now? Obama is a Marxist-Leninist Muslim, and he isn’t likely to back Great Britain.


9 posted on 12/24/2011 5:17:28 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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Not again. Didn't the Argentines get enough back in the 80's?

10 posted on 12/24/2011 5:21:27 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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I remember being surprised that the Argentinians put up a better fight than I had thought they would but it still was not close.

The one thing I do not understand and this seems to happen all the time, is the Argentinians sent a bunch of recent draftees to hold the islands against British professionals. Again they put up a bit of a fight but also again not really close.


11 posted on 12/24/2011 5:23:49 PM PST by yarddog
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Yep. Words of support are one thing, the power to back them up is another. I don’t know where the Argentine Air Force is today but the Royal Navy is a shadow of what it was during the 1982 war.


12 posted on 12/24/2011 5:24:38 PM PST by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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A couple of submarines and Argentinas ships become reefs.. Their Air Force are merely targets.. Their Army cannot swim to the Falklands.. Falklands Oil will pay for any War..


13 posted on 12/24/2011 5:24:51 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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“Those islands have NEVER belonged to Argentina, and the islanders are British citizens. They have made, through their own self-determination, that they want to be a part of Great Britain.

Argentina wants to seize the islands just because...they might be able to. And the desires of the Falkland’s inhabitants?

Typical South Americans, the Argentines don’t give a damn.

The United States has more international right to take back our former colony of Cuba, than Argentina has to invade and seize the independent Falkland Islands.”

Roger That!


14 posted on 12/24/2011 5:27:07 PM PST by mongo141
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Cattle rustlers were hung. It wasn’t because the crime was so bad. It was because the cattle were hard to keep an eye on. What am I suggesting? Britan should threaten the big one if the Argentines try it again. Since the rest of Latin America doesn’t think much of the Brits y should the Brits cae about Latin American opinion.


15 posted on 12/24/2011 5:30:30 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Agreed.


16 posted on 12/24/2011 5:33:07 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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Well, this time, there is an RAF unit on the islands and they are equipped with Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.


17 posted on 12/24/2011 5:34:39 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Precisely. The Royal Navy is but a yacht club and Hussein The Magnificent Muslim, won’t get our USN involved.

This summer in the southern hemisphere may be the last best chance for Argentina to occupy and steal the Falkland’s oil resources.


18 posted on 12/24/2011 5:40:44 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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The RN is smaller than it was in 1982, but they still have attack submarines.


19 posted on 12/24/2011 5:43:34 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Also, the Royal Navy does maintian a guided missile destroyer in the area and there is a garrion of 500 light infantry on the islands.


20 posted on 12/24/2011 5:47:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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