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    Anybody bothered about what's going on in Libya?

    When I talk to friends and family back home about the invasion of Libya they don't seem very interested, don't even have an opinion. Seems strange with all the cuts and how out of pocket people are I would have thought that spending billions on invading a foreign country would cause a bit of anger


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walaytawo View Post
    When I talk to friends and family back home about the invasion of Libya they don't seem very interested, don't even have an opinion. Seems strange with all the cuts and how out of pocket people are I would have thought that spending billions on invading a foreign country would cause a bit of anger
    a vision off freedom ... is wot they will only get... we once bank rolled a young freedom fighter in afghanistan against the russians.. osama bin laden.. look how that turned out... i just wonder wen the first boat loads of libyans arrive here...


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    I spend time nowadays very close to the libyan coastline,just offshore,lots of people are interested



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    This is a forum for primarily for Brits and their Filipina partners, plenty of other more appropriayte forums to discuss such a weighty issue. Barbacue chicken marinade recipes please!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by scott&ligaya View Post
    This is a forum for primarily for Brits and their Filipina partners, plenty of other more appropriayte forums to discuss such a weighty issue. Barbacue chicken marinade recipes please!!!
    That's the head in the sand attitude I'm talking about The average tax payer just doesn't want to talk about it.

    @Tawi2 That's quite a trek from Cotabato. Nice to know others are taking an interest

    @branno we like to play both sides don't we


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walaytawo View Post
    That's the head in the sand attitude I'm talking about The average tax payer just doesn't want to talk about it.
    You are so wrong my friend, just not the forum I wish to discuss it, my son is actually patrolling the no fly zone right now, he flys Typhoons out of RAF Coningsby but is currently forward deployed to Gioia Del Colle in Italy.

    Now has any one got any barbacue chicken marinade recipes
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    I thought with all the different sections on the site there was more here than discussions about relationships, visas and recipes. Please feel free to delete this thread mods if I've strayed from the subjects the site was intended for.


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    actually that is a good point and you did post in the news section so apologies if I somewhat made light of a serious topic... and a belated welcome to the site.
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    good post what do you think of the action rather than the cost
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    johann hari has wrote in the indepent on sunday "were not been told the truth on libya" .... its well worth a read.


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    They'll be needing lots of new armaments once the situation is resolved.


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    Quote Originally Posted by branno View Post
    johann hari has wrote in the indepent on sunday "were not been told the truth on libya" .... its well worth a read.
    this one

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...a-2264785.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by keithAngel View Post
    this one
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    the pakinstani grocer seemed very clued up tho...


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    How much is one nuke? How wide is Libya? Sorted
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    how wides scouser land?
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    Governments arrogance in believing how gullible people are is laughable. Did we learn nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan? Does anybody actually believe this is a humanitarium effort, because we care so much about the oppressed people of Libya.

    Without oil our western economies are screwed, and with our own reserves running out there's no other way to fix that problem than plunder it from other countries.

    Straight from the horses mouth:



    A good read if anybody's interested: Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (The American Empire Project)


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    We done the same thing in Bosnia or have you forgotten that? No oil there, and Libya only supplies 2% of the worlds oil, and at the moment 0% and we are not short of supplies. No oil in Afghanistan either so that arguments a dud.

    It is humanitarian as we prevented genocide, and is something the UN needs to do more often. You'll find British people aren't dumb to things like this, however the Yanks are extremely dumbed down and insular.
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    What makes Libya more of an urgent humanitarian crisis than say Zimbabwe, Sudan, Ivory Coast etc Anything to do with it being in the top ten oil producers in the world? The first thing they did when they went in - as with Iraq - was secure the oil fields. Afghanistan may have something to do with the proposed pipeline Cheney and his buddies had been planning for years to run oil from Azerbaijan.

    Bosnia, who knows, the military is an economy within itself. When you've got a massive budget to keep building weapons only makes sense to use them.


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    Afganastan was and is about the oil pipeline wouldnt want radical islamists anywhere near that
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    lol nice one Keith posted the same statement at the same time


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    Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
    How much is one nuke? How wide is Libya? Sorted
    For those of old enough to remember the hey day of the 'Hollies' pop group, I am reminded of their 1964 "hit":-

    "Just one *look" - read *nuke &c ...


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    ... "That's all it took~uh ye~ah
    Just one nuke ... and Ga~daffi's gone ... on on~
    Aa~way~ay~ay~
    Fo~or e~ver ... and a day~ay~ay
    ~Oh~oh~oh~oh


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    well i use to work with 2 libyan brothers, they had a english mother and british passports, the didn't consider themselves to be British at all, infact they use to at british soldiers getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. i wonder if their cheering the Brits now
    http://www.filipinouk.com/forum/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=870&dateline=1270312908


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    For the benefit of most of a generation ... as of then unborn ... the 'Hollies' were a Manchester-based group with its genesis in the early 1960s.


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    possibly 60 billion barrels of oil in the falklands and more than 1 trillion dollars worth of minerals in afghan... thats a few quids worth fighting for ... hows that song go ... all i need is the oil that you breathe....


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    Quote Originally Posted by branno View Post
    ... hows that song go ... all i need is the oil that you breathe....
    Ah ... another variation on a 'Hollies' theme.


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    Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
    well i use to work with 2 libyan brothers, they had a english mother and british passports, the didn't consider themselves to be British at all, infact they use to at british soldiers getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. i wonder if their cheering the Brits now
    That's the kind of hatred we fuel with our foreign policies


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walaytawo View Post
    That's the kind of hatred we fuel with our foreign policies
    they hated the brits becuase they killed their 'muslim brothers'

    thou them same 'muslim brothers' killed an estimated 1m of each other in the iran/iraq war
    http://www.filipinouk.com/forum/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=870&dateline=1270312908


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    I can understand why Arthur and Branno made the connection between the Hollies and Gaddafi ... both have berries / berets


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walaytawo View Post
    What makes Libya more of an urgent humanitarian crisis than say Zimbabwe, Sudan, Ivory Coast etc
    We are doing the same thing in the Ivory Coast if you pay attention to the news.
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