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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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Posted by michael on August 29, 2009
Our revered prime minister has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today.
What he has had to say is not that surprising for him, but it really shows how good he is in catching the mood of the people!
Brown said that getting another 50,000 Afghan troops trained by the end of the year would enable them to “take more responsibility for their own affairs”. I don’t know how many they have trained or are in the process of training, but to get that many Afghan soldiers trained in four months would seem to need many more of our soldiers to train them!
I am glad that Brown has announced that new equipment, e.g. more armoured vehicles, will be made available. Two questions:
- When will they be available?
- How armoured are these vehicles?
If they are more heavily armoured than the vehicles currently in use by our soldiers then it will be an admission that the current vehicles do not have sufficient armour!
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Posted by michael on August 19, 2009
One of the major reasons that the war in Afghanistan is going so badly is that Gordon Brown and New Labour are doing it ‘on the cheap’. They have clearly not provided the appropriate safety equipment to our troops. Brown has said a number of times ‘they have enough helicopters’ and then adds ‘we are sending more’. But if they have enough helicopters then they don’t need any more, it would be a waste of money sending more! So do the troops have enough helicopters or don’t they??
Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1207519/Generals-Bungling-Bob-replaced.html#comments#ixzz0OdKyyNOW
Have our soldiers in Afghanistan properly equipped? The debate continues with Labour apparantly, according the Mail, trying to discredit the Army Geneneral Sir Richard Dannalt.
There would seem to be an argument amongst at least some of the military chiefs and the government regarding the levels of equipment supplied to our troops in Afghanistan.
Brown has said a number of times ‘they have enough helicopters’ and I have heard him then adding ‘we are sending more‘.
But if they have enough helicopters then they don’t need any more, it would be a waste of money sending more!
So do the troops have enough helicopters or don’t they?? The answer seems to depend upon whom one asks!
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Posted by michael on July 30, 2009
So the Iraq enquiry may last into 2011. Does that surprise me? NO!
Gordon Brown was the chancellor whilst the Labour government under Blair was pushing the country to go to war in Iraq. From memory, Brown stayed very quiet on the subject of going to war. He kept out of the public view and I don’t remember him giving any statements supporting going to war.
Blair gave a number of justifications for going to war. They were all very weak, as far as I was concerned, and if they were now given as an excuse to going to war then I believe the people in the UK would not accept such weak justifications for war!
I believe, it’s my view folks!, that Blair saw himself as some sort of world saviour and ‘freeing’ Iraq from Saddam was part of some vision of greatness that he had. Remember that Blair had taken our soldiers to war in other countries before Iraq!
I would guess that the last thing Brown wants now in the build up to the next election is for the people of the UK to see that the justification for the Iraq war was almost non-existant. I don’t actually believe that Saddam ever had any weapons that could threaten the UK. The ’40 minutes to being bombed’ was never anything that could have been done by Iraq.
The fact that a high school paper that had been on the internet for quite a while, was then claimed as the ‘intelligence’ that exposed what Saddam was up to, was just a con trick on the British people!
Remember when Blair had tanks at Heathrow and around London? Why were they there? In my view it was simply to scare the British public into accepting his claims that we had to go to war!
The result of Blair’s actions? The UK is now threatened by Islamic terrorists. We have to have extra security in place at all times in our country. The actions of New Labour under Blair were, in my view, the reason why this has happened.
It’s my view that Gordon Brown cannot afford a really open and full inquiry. He could not afford to have the enquiry results before the next election!
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Posted by michael on July 28, 2009
I feel that I need to ask this question because, in my view, what this government says about our soldiers is not backed up by what they do!
Following the debacle with helicoptors and the Prime Minister seeming to overide the military leaders on whether or not there are sufficient helicoptors in the battle field, we now have the Ministry of Defence trying to significantly reduce the compensation awards to injured soldiers!
In my view this Labour government have an appalling attitude towards our soldiers. It is quite shameful that charities, such as Hope for Heroes need to raise money for our injured soldiers.
The arguments about helicoptors and body armour are symptomatic of this government’s attitude. How can a prime minister override senior military leaders and say that they are wrong and that he was right about the need for helicoptors!
It is quite disgraceful that compensation levels for our military personal are well below that of civilian awards.
The fact that Brown has recently doubled the maximum lump sum payment to £570,000 for the most severely injured soldiers, in addition to providing an index-linked monthly income for life, actually condemns him and his party for their attitude to compensating soldiers with less severe injuries; for example those who are just blinded, or just lose limbs or are just left with debilitating injuries for life!
Our injured soldiers should not suffer because our government appears to have almost bankrupted the UK. Just because we have huge, huge debts to pay off over the next 30 years is not an excuse to refuse to care for our injured soldiers properly!
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