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Archive for November 7th, 2011

Please can we just .. “sit this one out” ?

Posted by Big John on November 7, 2011

I see that they sent tricky Nicky Clegg to welcome back our servicemen who had been involved in NATO operations in Libya. I wonder who’s idea it was to send that twit along to praise our troops. I thought that he wanted to get rid of our armed forces. It’s a wonder that he didn’t hand out redundancy notices while he was there.

I only mention this event because it has been much reported that the UK forces were stretched to their limit during this action against a pretty demoralised opposition, and yet now I read that the UK is “advancing contingency plans for joining American forces in a possible air and sea campaign against military bases in Iran” !

Yes !  … “Eye-Ran” ! … Has our Dave gone completely bonkers ? … Does he not read the papers ? … Surely he must know that our once proud navy who saw off the Spanish Armada is down to a couple of leaky landing craft, the Royal Air Force, who once defeated the mighty Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, is buzzing around in patched up Tiger Moth bi-planes and the army that stuffed Napoleon and Rommel is looking for spare parts for it’s few remaining muskets and may have to call on the Chelsea Pensioners as a reserve.

To be serious, I am reminded of Tony Blair crawling up George Bush’s arse when he heard about those “Weapons of Mass Destruction” hidden by Saddam Hussein in ”Eye-Rack”, and now our brave ‘Dave of the Desert’ is planning a repeat performance with Barack Obama, who, not so long ago, seemed to think that the invasion of Iraq was a total cock-up !

Israel has, quite rightly, got it’s knickers in a twist over the possibility that the loonies who run Iran may soon get their hands on a nuclear bomb, but Israel is no pushover when it comes to a military punch-up, and the massive US war machine hardly needs the help of our diminishing armed forces. So will someone please tell dick-head Dave to … 

….  put his bloody sabre back in the cupboard !

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