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Discuss I wonder if the Falklands Islanders should try petitioning Obama? at the Staff College and Staff Officers forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; The USA usually spends billions of USD and kills lots of people in the cause ...
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24-01-2012, 20:06 #1Member
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I wonder if the Falklands Islanders should try petitioning Obama?
The USA usually spends billions of USD and kills lots of people in the cause of freedom and democracy. I wonder instead if President Obama might be persuaded to do some good in his own backyard by very quietly letting it be known that he's not going to let the freedom of 3,000 Falkland Islanders get trampled in the process of Argentina trying to cut itself a slice of the oil?
I'm probably very naive, but until the UK gets itself another aircraft carrier, a discreet touch of US "back off Christina" might prevent further necessary anxiety and possible grief in the South Atlantic?
I've tried drafting a petition to send to the great man - rather than clutter up Arrse it's here Falkland Islanders petition President Obama | Hugh McManners - Official Site
I'll be very grateful for any repeatable suggestions (he being the Leader of the Free World).
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24-01-2012, 20:07 #2Senior Member
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Best wah of 2012 so far.
Originally Posted by Hugh McManners
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24-01-2012, 20:18 #3Senior Member
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"Dear Barak
Please forget all about the Monroe Doctrine and 200-odd years of regional policy.
If you need any help with Congress, just let me know.
Love and kisses
Carrots"
There you go, should be sorted by next week.We need people who look to the stars, holding the nation and the world in their hearts but at the same time we need down-to-earth people who can do serious and trying work.
In a definite sense, a country's power and prestige isn't only a reflection of its economic power but also a reflection of its people's quality and morality. Moreover, I think the latter is actually more important in the long-term.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/multi...na_has_changed
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24-01-2012, 22:01 #4Senior Member
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If the US have an oil interest in and around the Falklands I can't see them letting Argentina interfere with that.
Good job because there's sod all we could do at the moment.
Other alternative for the Falklands, total independence, they then get UN protection against hostile acts towards them.I'm not an alcoholic, .......... alcoholics go to meetings, I go to the pub.
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2nd best wah of 2012, trade in your crayons for chalk... They might even cure your rancid rants if eaten! Originally Posted by General_Layabout
Job jobbed!If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
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24-01-2012, 22:14 #6Fixed that! Originally Posted by Tinman74
2nd best wah of 2012, trade in your crayons for chalk... They might even cure your rancid rants if eaten!
Chavs, hoodies and celts.......
......proof at last of a genetic link!
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24-01-2012, 22:51 #7Senior Member
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Never happen, just last June the Hillary Clinton State Department again said the Falklands status should be negotiated. You would think 82 solved that once and for all. Originally Posted by Hugh McManners
Obama Administration Backs Argentina Over U.K. On Falkland Dispute | Fox News
Obama panders to the South American set. Its disgusting but thats the truth of the man, he has a serious hard on for the British, due to a family myth about Grandpa being tortured.
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24-01-2012, 23:07 #8Senior Member
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ISTR that Hillary used the word 'Malvinas' in reference to the Falkland Islands, which should indicate which way the wind shall blow. Originally Posted by Goldbricker
Granpa Obama's mistreatment by the British is a matter for which abject apologies are due to all the citizens of the USA. Why they didn't castrate him, we can only wonder.Peccavi.
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