[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Sorry Britain... (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 6/8/2011 3:42:48 PM EDT
Our Jackass in Chief is at it again... 
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100091346/another-slap-in-the-face-for-britain-the-obama-administration-sides-with-argentina-and-venezuela-in-oas-declaration-on-the-falklands/ President Obama was effusive in his praise for the Special Relationship when he visited London recently, but his administration continues to slap Britain in the face over the highly sensitive Falklands issue. Washington signed on to a “draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands” passed by unanimous consent by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) at its meeting in San Salvador yesterday, an issue which had been heavily pushed by Argentina. In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua.
The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. It also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic. |
|
Quoted: Our Jackass in Chief is at it again... http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100091346/another-slap-in-the-face-for-britain-the-obama-administration-sides-with-argentina-and-venezuela-in-oas-declaration-on-the-falklands/ President Obama was effusive in his praise for the Special Relationship when he visited London recently, but his administration continues to slap Britain in the face over the highly sensitive Falklands issue. Washington signed on to a "draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands” passed by unanimous consent by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) at its meeting in San Salvador yesterday, an issue which had been heavily pushed by Argentina. In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua. The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. It also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic. Does this surprise anyone? He an anti-Imperialist to the core. |
|
Of all the British oversea territories, the Falklands are going to be the last ones they'd ever give up. After the war, just giving them up without a fight would be a slap to the face of all those Brits who died.
By the end of the Obama term, all Americans are going to be barred from British soil at this rate... |
|
Quoted:
Of all the British oversea territories, the Falklands are going to be the last ones they'd ever give up. After the war, just giving them up without a fight would be a slap to the face of all those Brits who died. By the end of the Obama term, all Americans are going to be barred from British soil at this rate... Some alread are! (Michael Savage for one.) |
|
I have nothing but extreme contempt for Mocha Nero the Boy King. Fuck you Barry Soetoro. Fuck your stupid fuck ideas. Fuck everything you stand for. Fuck everything you've ever done. Fuck your contempt for our great nation. Fuck your lies. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck. You. FuckYouFuckYouFuckYou. F U C K Y O U B A R R Y . |
| Didn't Britain recently retire their last aircraft carrier? I thought I heard (or read) this somewhere. If so then Obunghole knows that Britain would have a lot of trouble in projecting any real strength without one. Good time to stab a ally in the back if you're trying to fuck them over. |
|
Doesn't he realize that by agreeing with that kind of shit he can start another war?
ETA: Brits: if our POTUS starts another stupid war down there please take the gloves off this time. Bombs hitting the mainland, ships in port get sunk. Some people don't stop trying until you beat the shit out of them. |
|
Quoted: I'm open to negotiating. So long as it goes like this British diplomat:Good morning Argentine diplomat: Good morning British diplomat: To business!The Islands are British, the people are British, if you dont like it, come at us bro! Well played. If we had a POTUS that wasn't America hating/blatantly trying to destroy us, we would totally have your back.
|
| Now, this would be a pretty sleazy political move, but what if we did this because the Brits wanted it. It could be enough to emphasize their need for their own force projection, aka aircraft carriers. Helps them justify spending the billions of £ on their new fleet. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Our Jackass in Chief is at it again...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100091346/another-slap-in-the-face-for-britain-the-obama-administration-sides-with-argentina-and-venezuela-in-oas-declaration-on-the-falklands/ President Obama was effusive in his praise for the Special Relationship when he visited London recently, but his administration continues to slap Britain in the face over the highly sensitive Falklands issue. Washington signed on to a "draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands” passed by unanimous consent by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) at its meeting in San Salvador yesterday, an issue which had been heavily pushed by Argentina. In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua.
The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. It also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic. Does this surprise anyone? He an anti-Imperialist to the core. Wonder if it has anything to do with his African roots. |
|
Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. |
|
Quoted: I'm open to negotiating. So long as it goes like this British diplomat:Good morning Argentine diplomat: Good morning British diplomat: To business!The Islands are British, the people are British, if you dont like it, come at us bro! I'm good with your negotiating position, but seriously speaking, does Great Britain still have the capability to defend and take back the Falklands? Especially if it was a combination of Argentina, Venezuela, and maybe some other nations.... I don't see it going very well for you guys at this point. -K |
|
Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Would you say the same thing about a group of islands where 3000 Americans lived if it got invaded? -K |
|
Quoted: So were a lot of former British colonies, including the USA. Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. |
|
Quoted: Now, this would be a pretty sleazy political move, but what if we did this because the Brits wanted it. It could be enough to emphasize their need for their own force projection, aka aircraft carriers. Helps them justify spending the billions of £ on their new fleet. Interesting thought, but I would have thought Libya would have had the same effect. -K |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Now, this would be a pretty sleazy political move, but what if we did this because the Brits wanted it. It could be enough to emphasize their need for their own force projection, aka aircraft carriers. Helps them justify spending the billions of £ on their new fleet. Interesting thought, but I would have thought Libya would have had the same effect. -K That was mostly an EU problem. The Falklands were/are a purely British thing. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. Israel isn't too impressed with him either. Jim |
|
Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? RIF |
|
Quoted: Quoted: So were a lot of former British colonies, including the USA. Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. Yes. And they fought pretty hard to keep us, too. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
So were a lot of former British colonies, including the USA.
Quoted:
A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. I don't give a fuck about Puerto Rico, but if somebody other then the US landed troops there and said it was theirs, I'd pretty much be ready to brawl over it. |
|
Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So were a lot of former British colonies, including the USA. Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. Yes. And they fought pretty hard to keep us, too. I think it is safe to say that the colonists of North America killed to have the received the same consideration from the Crown, that the Falkland Islanders now enjoy. http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/country-profile/south-america/falkland-islands/ The Falkland Islands are one of fourteen British Overseas Territories. As such, the UK recognises and encourages the Islanders’ right to self determination, including their right to remain British if that is the wish, freely and democratically expressed, of its people. The Falklands have been continuously, peacefully and effectively inhabited and administered by Britain since 1833. The only exception to this was the brief illegal occupation by Argentine military forces in 1982. |
|
Quoted:
A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Their citizens live there. Citizens that wish to remain citizens and enjoy their rights as citizens. That's the importance. If the UK can't guarantee them that then the UK doesn't deserve to exist. |
|
Quoted: A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all?  What about the nearly 3,000 killed at Pearl Harbor or in the World Trade Center? |
|
Quoted:
I have nothing but extreme contempt for Mocha Nero the Boy King. Fuck you Barry Soetoro. Fuck your stupid fuck ideas. Fuck everything you stand for. Fuck everything you've ever done. Fuck your contempt for our great nation. Fuck your lies. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck. You. FuckYouFuckYouFuckYou. F U C K Y O U B A R R Y . This. A big fat +1. Couldn't have put it better. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
So were a lot of former British colonies, including the USA.
Quoted:
A whopping 3,000 people live in the falklands.... Why the hell does the UK even give a shit about that place? Does it hold any real strategic importance, or ANY importance at all? Because it's THEIRS. And it isn't for Obama to tell them what to do with it. true. but the people of the Falklands WANT to remain a part of the British Empire. |