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I'm not surprised

Link?

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some of us are caught up in kid land....

What are they saying?...

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I try and find a link.....

They are linking her to Jimmy Saville and saying she never Argentina as a threat so the whole war thing was political

yanbu!

jeez If I could type I'd be more dangerous than Thatcher

I'll She never saw

read on guardian site that she made sure she paid all the costs for finding her stupid son who got lost in the desert. cannot stand the woman but can you imagine this lot in parliament now paying out anything from their own money. They claim for bloody toilet roll , kit cats and anything else they can get away with.

I can't find anything that say anything that makes me think anything bad.

She and jimmy savile communicated via letter and she donated money to Mandeville hospital. Lots of people knew jimmy Saville and donated money. Doesn't mean they were party to child abuse.

There was an agenda for Argentina. The agenda was 'we want that island and they tried to take it back, we will show them' which was pretty evident at the time and since.

she should never be forgiven for the falklands war. all those lives lost for some shitty little island

mx5 huh????????????

Er just because she knew Jimmy Saville doesn't mean she knew he was a paedophile

I think the Argentine agenda was quite real as well.

And back on topic.... Link? What's been said?

mx5hairdresser

Your comment shows how little you know about the islands.

mx5 "some shitty little island!".

For a start The Falkland Islands are more than one island, they are not shitty and more importantly the people who live there are British!

Shitty little island?! Really. What about the people who live there? I think they were (and still are) incredibly grateful.

This reminds of the time a friend said they couldn't see the poi t of the armed forces ......

Mx5, if you lived on those shitty little islands you would rather pleased they weren't just given to Argentina I would imagine?

Can't beat a 'Thatcher' thread for bringing out the frothing ill-informed loons

mx5 - It wasn't just about defending the islands but freeing the British people who live on them. They desperately wanted British help once their home had been taken by force.

Hundreds (probably thousands) of people are 'linked' to Jimmy Saville in one way or another via a lot of the charitable work of that time. He was a key figure in many fundraising and cahritable events of the era so anyone else contributing to or dealing with charities may be seen to have links with him. That doesn't mean they are linked to anythign else.

The war was hugely popular at the time. It has certainly been proposed long before now it was at least partly a publicity/distraction stunt....politicians do that sort of thing all the time. So no news there.

Fraid the Savile/Thatcher link get a big whatever from me.

Can't say I've read anything so very dreadful. She found it hard to believe there was a credible argentine threat before the invasion because invading would have been so stupid - with hr there.

As for a saville "link" she knew him. So did lots of people. Big deal.

Re the Falklands - it's also about the oil...

My DH spent 7 months in the Falklands a few years ago (armed forces tour of duty). The islanders are fiercely patriotic and adamant that they wish to be British and not Argentinean. The right to self determination is enshrined in UN law and we are morally obliged to protect our citizens.

Allowing Argentina to take the islands by force would have been a disastrous message to send to other tinpot dictatorships

My cousin was involved in the Falklands war. It is ignorant and idiotic to say they are shitty little islands and to onfer that the only reason we defended them was some mad idea of Thatcher's. All those people who live there are British citizens; it is our duty to defend them from invasion.

It is one of the few wars which of the late 20th century which was entirely justified.

I could never understand, then or now, how so many right-on people decided it was ok to abandon the Falklanders to invasion by a facist junta. Because they were blinded by hatred of Thatche, I suppose. I hated her too, but come on.

yohohoho

"There was an agenda for Argentina. The agenda was 'we want that island and they tried to take it back, we will show them' which was pretty evident at the time and since."

Tha Falkland Islands have never been part of Argentina.

Exactly Boney. It's not geographically close to automatically fall into being Argentinian territory.

The Falklands were taken from the French by Britain.

FrankelcenseAndMyhrr and Jux 100% with you

I didn't mean there was an agenda for Argentina. I meant for the war. Typed a bit fast and had as bouncing on my knee and put the wrong word in.

Should have Said 'there was an agenda for the war'

Well of course there wa an agenda...protecting British subjects.

All those people who live there are British citizens; it is our duty to defend them from invasion.

Hear hear!

she should never be forgiven for the falklands war. all those lives lost for some shitty little island

You mean those islands she tried to cede to Argentina

www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/southamerica/falklands/falklandswar.htm

www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/southamerica/falklands/falklandswar.htm

All those people who live there are British citizens; it is our duty to defend them from invasion.

At the time they were not, the government of the day

sorry pressed post too soon

the government changed their citizenship to that of overseas territory

I loathed Thatcher and felt the 80's were like Narnia, always winter and never christmas. I was shocked by the Falklands war, but how could she do anything else but respond with military might, to an invasion of British territory, with British citizens who want to remain British. The armed forces involved in defending the Falklands experienced such horrors that many of them continue to suffer psychologically, despite their pride in defending these "shitty little islands".