AIBU to not at all surprised at things the news are saying about Thatcher?

[Roasties]

I'm not surprised

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".