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Personally,
I was against this war, it was Imperialism at its worst, British lives were lost for a political electoral gamble - that worked.
I hated Thatcher but she was politically astute. Only making one electoral cock up. Blair learnt from her, and has acted accordingly.
Coming from a party of Internationalists, this man is making me sick.
Where has the Ethical foreign policy gone, we still allow the trade of instruments of torture, we turn back refugees from a war of our making, we bombed innocents in Iraq but allow death squads to roam in Chad and Darfur.
Falklands was about oil, Iraq was about oil. Our lads die to fill the gloated oil barons pockets. Blair has sold out socialism and has recreated himself as the archetypal capitalist - Thatcher.
Good bye Blair and good ridings Thatcher.
Rant over.
Rant over.
"Tony Blair has said he would have sent a task force to liberate the Falkland Islands if he had been Prime Minister when Argentina invaded 25 years ago.
The Prime Minister praised the courage of Lady Thatcher who took the decision to try to retake the desolate South Atlantic islands which had been a British Crown colony since 1833. "I have got no doubt it was the right thing to do," Mr Blair said. "But for reasons not simply to do with British sovereignty but also because I think there was a principle at stake."
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In an interview for the Downing Street website with Simon Schama, the historian, Mr Blair pointed out that the casualty rate in the 11-week Falklands conflict was higher than the combined number of British deaths so far in the four-year Iraq war and six-year Afghanistan operation.
At the end of the battle for the Falklands, 253 British soldiers had been killed and 649 Argentines. By contrast 134 British soldiers have died in Iraq, 52 in Afghanistan.
Monday was the 25th anniversary of the low-profile Argentine landing on South Georgia that preceded the full-scale invasion on April 2.
I was against this war, it was Imperialism at its worst, British lives were lost for a political electoral gamble - that worked.
I hated Thatcher but she was politically astute. Only making one electoral cock up. Blair learnt from her, and has acted accordingly.
Coming from a party of Internationalists, this man is making me sick.
Where has the Ethical foreign policy gone, we still allow the trade of instruments of torture, we turn back refugees from a war of our making, we bombed innocents in Iraq but allow death squads to roam in Chad and Darfur.
Falklands was about oil, Iraq was about oil. Our lads die to fill the gloated oil barons pockets. Blair has sold out socialism and has recreated himself as the archetypal capitalist - Thatcher.
Good bye Blair and good ridings Thatcher.
Rant over.
Rant over.
"Tony Blair has said he would have sent a task force to liberate the Falkland Islands if he had been Prime Minister when Argentina invaded 25 years ago.
The Prime Minister praised the courage of Lady Thatcher who took the decision to try to retake the desolate South Atlantic islands which had been a British Crown colony since 1833. "I have got no doubt it was the right thing to do," Mr Blair said. "But for reasons not simply to do with British sovereignty but also because I think there was a principle at stake."
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In an interview for the Downing Street website with Simon Schama, the historian, Mr Blair pointed out that the casualty rate in the 11-week Falklands conflict was higher than the combined number of British deaths so far in the four-year Iraq war and six-year Afghanistan operation.
At the end of the battle for the Falklands, 253 British soldiers had been killed and 649 Argentines. By contrast 134 British soldiers have died in Iraq, 52 in Afghanistan.
Monday was the 25th anniversary of the low-profile Argentine landing on South Georgia that preceded the full-scale invasion on April 2.
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