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[Banjax]

jesus - I just remembered that Tony Blair ordered TANKS TO GUARD HEATHROW AIRPORT


can anyone remember what the hell that was about?


and what it was distracting us from?  :-/




totally forgot about that for years 

[tunnie]

2003 from accounts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2749659.stm

Have you been smoking something?  :-? 

[Banjax]

2003 from accounts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2749659.stm

Have you been smoking something?  :-? 

cheers - i just remembered it suddenly, wasn't it a slight overeaction? what exactly would the tanks do? stop fuel laden jeeps ploughing into the airport? so thats no longer an issue is it? glad we're safe 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

2003 from accounts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2749659.stm

Have you been smoking something?  :-? 

I've sampled some excellent wacky baccy in my time.....

[MaxV6]

i think you're over reacting.


all i did was park my MV6 estate in business parking .

[Banjax]

2003 from accounts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2749659.stm

Have you been smoking something?  :-? 

I've sampled some excellent wacky baccy in my time.....

purely medicinal I assume - excellent pain relief properties for the aches and strains of everyday life 

[Banjax]

i think you're over reacting.


all i did was park my MV6 estate in business parking .

Halfords do so much more than mudflaps these days - turrets, guns, armour 

[Gaffers]

 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

2003 from accounts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2749659.stm

Have you been smoking something?  :-? 

I've sampled some excellent wacky baccy in my time.....

purely medicinal I assume - excellent pain relief properties for the aches and strains of everyday life 

Of Course.... ....

[albitz]

Iirc it was about a month before the invasion of Iraq. It was typical Nu Libore scare tactics., cynical and sinister as ever. Trying to scare the crap out of their own electorate, hoping to get them on side for their illegal war. Despicable and hateful, even by the standards of politicians. This is the sort of thing that we are used to hearing about in African dictatorships or South American banana republics.I still believe Bliar should be spending the rest of his natural in a cell, for the strokes he pulled.
Still, he does have the distinction of being the only Prime Minister in history to be interviewed under caution by the police.
God ,I hate that bloke.

[Banjax]

Iirc it was about a month before the invasion of Iraq. It was typical Nu Libore scare tactics., cynical and sinister as ever. Trying to scare the crap out of their own electorate, hoping to get them on side for their illegal war. Despicable and hateful, even by the standards of politicians. This is the sort of thing that we are used to hearing about in African dictatorships or South American banana republics.I still believe Bliar should be spending the rest of his natural in a cell, for the strokes he pulled.
Still, he does have the distinction of being the only Prime Minister in history to be interviewed under caution by the police.
God ,I hate that bloke.

thing is Albs - most of us were behind the war, only the libdems and some tree-huggers were moaning about it, nowadays it seems i'm a lone voice supporting the great "blood for oil" adventure - we need oil, you cant have a loony like saddam controlling 25% of the reserves.....whatever the lies and made up intel we used, the end justifies the means surely? 

[Dishevelled Den]

Iirc it was about a month before the invasion of Iraq. It was typical Nu Libore scare tactics., cynical and sinister as ever. Trying to scare the crap out of their own electorate, hoping to get them on side for their illegal war. Despicable and hateful, even by the standards of politicians. This is the sort of thing that we are used to hearing about in African dictatorships or South American banana republics.I still believe Bliar should be spending the rest of his natural in a cell, for the strokes he pulled.
Still, he does have the distinction of being the only Prime Minister in history to be interviewed under caution by the police.
God ,I hate that bloke.

thing is Albs - most of us were behind the war, only the libdems and some tree-huggers were moaning about it, nowadays it seems i'm a lone voice supporting the great "blood for oil" adventure - we need oil, you cant have a loony like saddam controlling 25% of the reserves.....whatever the lies and made up intel we used, the end justifies the means surely? 

the end justifies the means surely

It depends upon who is making the case for such justification BJ.

The desire to have influence over Iraq's oil reserves did, in  my view, play a part in the decision to invade the country, however regime change and the development of a powerbase in the region certainly had much more prescience in the overall strategic thinking I would suggest.

[albitz]

Iirc it was about a month before the invasion of Iraq. It was typical Nu Libore scare tactics., cynical and sinister as ever. Trying to scare the crap out of their own electorate, hoping to get them on side for their illegal war. Despicable and hateful, even by the standards of politicians. This is the sort of thing that we are used to hearing about in African dictatorships or South American banana republics.I still believe Bliar should be spending the rest of his natural in a cell, for the strokes he pulled.
Still, he does have the distinction of being the only Prime Minister in history to be interviewed under caution by the police.
God ,I hate that bloke.

thing is Albs - most of us were behind the war, only the libdems and some tree-huggers were moaning about it, nowadays it seems i'm a lone voice supporting the great "blood for oil" adventure - we need oil, you cant have a loony like saddam controlling 25% of the reserves.....whatever the lies and made up intel we used, the end justifies the means surely? 

I wasnt. .......I had long since concluded that a very good rule of thumb was, that If tony and his cronies said something was a good thing, then it was almost certainly a bad thing. Even if the basic reasoning had have been sound, the methods used to get there would still have been beneath despicable.

[MaxV6]

I disagreed with the war in principle, but agreed Saddam needed removing.


personally i'd have voted in favour of an assassination....  not very often i'd do that....    but the war was about oil and western control over the future....    not just the removal of a madman.


granted, there may have been a requirement for another assassination  if one of his nut job cronies had replaced him...   but after 2 or 3 of those, i reckon they'd have got the message.. 


my reasons for believing in the removal of the madman were entirely based on his genocidal treatment of the kurds, inhuman treatment of much of the rest of Iraq's populace, and aggressive posturing and intrusions on his neighbours... 


and nothing at all to do with oil.    not one drop.... 

[Mysteryman]

Iirc it was about a month before the invasion of Iraq. It was typical Nu Libore scare tactics., cynical and sinister as ever. Trying to scare the crap out of their own electorate, hoping to get them on side for their illegal war. Despicable and hateful, even by the standards of politicians. This is the sort of thing that we are used to hearing about in African dictatorships or South American banana republics.I still believe Bliar should be spending the rest of his natural in a cell, for the strokes he pulled.
Still, he does have the distinction of being the only Prime Minister in history to be interviewed under caution by the police.
God ,I hate that bloke.

thing is Albs - most of us were behind the war, only the libdems and some tree-huggers were moaning about it, nowadays it seems i'm a lone voice supporting the great "blood for oil" adventure - we need oil, you cant have a loony like saddam controlling 25% of the reserves.....whatever the lies and made up intel we used, the end justifies the means surely? 

Ahmedinejad is controlling it now.