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Posted by michael on March 5, 2010
Brown had kept himself in the background whilst Blair was taking the UK to war. The impression Brown gave was that he did not like was happening.
But we now know that he fully supported the Iraq invasion and then the military action in Afghanistan.
We have had all the stories from the front line that our troops have not had the proper equipment for the action in Afghanistan, with particular reference to snatch land rovers and helicopters. There is plenty of evidence that they were not equipped properly, if only that the government finally acknowledged the shortfalls and started improving the equipment the soldiers were using.
The UK will now know that Brown was fully in support of the military actions and can share fully in any credit or blame that results from these wars.
Brown had kept himself in the background whilst Blair was taking the UK to war. By doing this Brown gave the impression that he did not like was happening.
But we now know that he fully supported the Iraq invasion and then the military action in Afghanistan.
We have had all the stories from the front line that our troops have not had the proper equipment for the action in Afghanistan, with particular reference to snatch land rovers and helicopters.
It would seem to me that Blair is reviled by the majority of the UK population. Brown should now take his place next to Blair in the annals of history.
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Posted by michael on March 4, 2010
Not surprising that the financial markets cannot believe that the people who messed up the UK economy so badly would be the right people to fix the problems!!
Just changing the UK government (which means that this turgid bunch has gone) would go a long way to getting the UK back on a sound financial footing.
Gordon Brown and Blair started with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government over thirteen years ago. Their term in power has been a financial and social disaster for the UK. The actions of Blair taking us to an unnecessary war has cost the country billions and, more importantly, cost the lives of many of our military, plus up to a million Iraquis and Afghanis, many of them civilians.
It is a shameful chapter in the history of the world. The UK needs to get rid of every vestige of this ‘New’ Labour thinking. It has been a disaster.
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Posted by michael on January 25, 2010
The war in Iraq was a bad decision by blair and New Labour. It is quite clear that we should never have been involved in this war.
Blair talks about regime change. Yes, Iraq had an awful leader. But that was no justification for going to war against the people of Iraq!!
And why stop at Iraq?? There are plenty of other evil and unpleasant regimes around the world. Did blair intend to invade all of these countries as well? blair and new labour have messed up our country big time!
We now have to be on guard 24×7 against bombing and attacks on UK citizens around the world. This is the legacy of Blair, Brown and New Labour!
Brown has now been shown to have been fully involved in the decision to go to war.
Brown and New Labour do not deserve another term in government. They have done us all enough harm already!
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Posted by michael on December 15, 2009
I despair at some of the actions of this government!
They have announced new helicopters for Afghanistan, which of course is good. But they won’t be available until 2013!!!
I thought that by then our soldiers had pulled out leaving the ‘well trained’ Afghan soldiers to protect themselves from the Taliban!!
So the helicopters won’t be available until AFTER our soldiers come home – OR does brown know that they are going to be there for many years yet!
Has brown now admitted that when he repeatedly and consistently said that our soldiers had enough equipment and helicopters (remember the NATO troops were sharing helicopters) that he was WRONG!
Yet now brown and his ministers are claiming credit for spending money on ’supporting’ our troops. It just seems so cynical. Perhaps there is an election due soon!
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Posted by michael on November 22, 2009
I do not understand how Blair the warmonger could ever have expected to have been the EU president. He had too much baggage as a result of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair didn’t join in with the Americans to attack Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein and his thug sons!! If that was justifiable then think how many other countries we would need to invade for the same reason!
As far as I am concerned Blair set out to con the British public by scaring them over the weapons of mass destruction! The most cynical step was putting tanks on the streets and at the airports!
We did not have a terrorist problem until Blair and Bush went to war against Iraq. This was a significant point in the history of the world and there are many consequences, mostly bad, that have stemmed directly from the actions of Blair and Bush.
History will not see these two leaders in a positive light.
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Posted by michael on November 13, 2009
It would seem obvious from the latest comments from Brown that he has finally understood that this war in the Middle East is wrong, was wrong from day one, that we cannot win and more and more of our soldiers will be killed or injured.
I was taken in by Blair (at first) when he claimed that we had to attack Iraq or they would attack us.
It wasn’t the quality of his argument, it was that it simply did not occur to me that the prime minister of this country would lie to us about the potential threat by another country!
Fortunately I realised quite quickly that everything blair was saying was rubbish and I have not believed a word he has said since!
But Brown has kept us in this war, even subsequently attacking Afghanistan. He has failed to justify the war, giving differing reasons why we need to be in Afghanistan.
Now Brown appears to have changed his mind and is working on exit strategies (which can be seen as meaning that the reasons we are at war were not that important after all!).
So what has changed to mean that Brown is now not firmly sticking to his stated position that this war is important to the UK?
I would suggest that nothing has changed. Except that we have an election coming up soon and Brown knows that he is not popular!
All that money wasted in these wars, let alone the lives lost and the lives blighted by injuries. We have an election coming up and Gordon Brown is changing his priorities!
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Posted by michael on November 6, 2009
It seems to me that Brown is very, very confused about the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is going on.
He has said today:
‘we cannot, must not and will not walk away as long as Al-Qaeda continues to plot attacks on Britain from the region’
What region is this???
Does he mean Afghanistan? OR perhaps he means Iraq? or Pakistan? I am not aware of any group in Afghanistan plotting attacks on the UK.
Even if there were, there are Islamic extremists in many other countries of the world who may be plotting to attack the UK. ARE WE NOW GOING TO WAR AGAINST THEM!!
Pakistan should be a prime target for the UK IF Brown is concerned about Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on Britain!!
Brown has introduced other reasons for our involvement in the war in Afghanistan. This includes allowing women to be educated and other aspects of the way women are treated. So is the UK now going to attack all countries which treat women like this? Some sort of crusade throughout the world against Islam perhaps?
The whole political thinking and strategy of this government is a complete mess! Just like the way that they run the UK! So no surprise there!
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Posted by michael on October 28, 2009
I fail to understand how Blair the Warmonger would even be considered as the EU president!!
All the damage throughout Europe with terrorist attacks and the continual 24×7 risk of further bombings are the result of the UK, headed by Blair and Brown, invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair has caused so much trouble throughout Europe with his apparent natural instinct to invade other countries. People seem to forget that in a fairly short time the UK was involved in THREE wars under Blair as prime minister.
Having Blair as the EU president is not a signal to the rest of the world that the EU is a potential threat to them!
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Posted by michael on September 8, 2009
The reason why we are under a continual threat of being bombed and having passenger jets blown up is that Blair, Brown and Bush went to war against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gordon Brown is claiming that our troops are fighting in Afghanistan in order to stop the threat of terrorism in the UK.
He is right! But his actions in the first place are the reason why we now have to deal with this threat against us. But the consequences of going to war against any country is that the people of that country will fight back!
What does Gordon Brown think that victory in the war in Afghanistan means. I don’t remember ever hearing him define what he thinks that beating the taliban actually means.
I have heard Brown saying that his intention is to train the Afghan government troops to carry on the war against the taliban themselves. But this is not going to stop the attacks against the UK and UK interests around the world. It simply gets our soldiers out of Afghanistan.
Getting peace for the UK and the USA means that all extremists, mostly Islamic, are prepared to stop bombing us at home and abroad.
It is possible that there is no way of getting peace in the war against terrorism. Brown, Blair and Bush have opened Pandora’s box. We cannot put the lid back on.
I think that the actions of these three leaders have cursed the world for a very long time. They will not go down in history in any other terms!
(In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box is the large jar carried by Pandora that unleashed many evils on mankind – ills, toils and sickness – and hope. (source: Wikipedia)
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Posted by michael on September 4, 2009
If I went to a neighbour’s house and beat up one of the kids, then can I really justify getting a group of my friends together and going back to the house and beating up everybody there – just to stop them from coming after me?
Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are the reason why we are now under continuous threat of attack!
Gordon Brown cannot justify our attacks on Afghanistan, but he is desperate to avoid getting the blame he deserves from our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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