Is the UK government finally waking up?

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  1. Leo2

    Leo2 Well-Known Member

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    How interesting that the alleged 'socialist' Blair was all the way with US aggression, and the 'flabby Etonian' is plumping for the rule of international law. It is not what the popular view might have expected.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/25/uk-reject-us-request-bases-iran
     
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    is the new world order courts. a good general or leader thinks of his own peoples protection first.
     
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    I'd like to think so, although this could just be bluster to please the British public. Cameron's rhetoric on Iran is pretty much the same as Obama's, saying ''now is not the time'' etc, which is certainly preferable to the Romney/Netanyahu rhetoric that ''Iran must be stopped.'' Stopped from doing what, one might ask, as it is still the consensus of all 16 US intelligence agencies that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, nor have they decided to do so.

    Then again, Cameron doesn't really have much choice. He knows most of the British public were against attacking Iraq, and the same will be true for Iran, if not more so. As the Tories didn't win enough seats in the last election to be able to form a government by themselves, complicity in a war against Iran would pretty much guarantee that Labour would win the next election.

    Dusty
     
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    It's both. It's leaders thinking of their own peoples protection first, by adhering to a mutually agreeable set of rules, which we call international laws.

    Iran has not broken any international laws, nor is there any indication that they might do so.

    Dusty
     
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    No, the whole leaseing of the Island to the US is disputable ..a very touchy subject. The US should legally not be there at all.

    http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-world-war-on-democracy
     
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    Here's an update.

    http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/26/britain-talks-under-way-on-us-using-bases-for-iran-attack/
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    The Tory government is deeply unpopular right now, mostly due to the austerity spending cuts which are hitting the majority rather than the minority wealthy. Cameron needs to tread very carefully, and he knows it. Having said that I don't trust the weasel one little bit, especially when you consider all the policy u-turns his government have had to make in the face of public opposition. It wouldn't surprise me at all if tomorrow he were to announce his fawning support for anything America desires, frankly.
     
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    Cameron is Pro American where as Clegg is Pro Europe ........ But Diego Garcia is a very very delicate subject, it should have been given back to the peoples of the Island, who had been their for as long as American Slaves have been in the USA.

    The lease to the USA is up in 2016 ..that is all that this evil (*)(*)(*)(*) is about.

    Read up on it pet, it is truly a heart breaker.
     
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    The US doesn't need US bases in the UK.

    Saudi Arabia will give them all the desert they need to set up bases to kill Muslims.

    What do you think triggered OBL
     
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    Diego Garcia is in the Indian Ocean, not in the UK.
     
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    Nope. If we look back to Foot and Powell and see what they, neither Pacifists both been in the War, said about Nuclear weapons. Unilateral disarmament but we got deeper and deeper into debt to the US and co ....Thanks to Churchills love of the good life, I am sorry to say. Bloody bastards all of em ! ;)


    Brrr turned cold hasn't it ? I'm in Sussex, don't have to say if you don't want but were are you ?
     
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    Blair was effectively a Tory.

    He was more Tory than many Tories.

    I doubt that Cameron has more ethics, or respect for international law.

    He does however know that dragging this country into things, against the wishes of the people, and at great cost, would probably make them unelectable again for about 25yrs.

    He is actually in a really awkward postion, as a PM.

    After all, he could also go down as being the man that was PM at a time when the union broke up.
     
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    Aye ! and under different circumstances , he'd very likely have been dragged to the ICJ The Hague . tried + convicted as a war criminal.

    see "War crime case against Tony Blair now rock-solid

    Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/1...ainst-tony-blair-now-rock-solid#ixzz2AXKedBhZ




    I hope (+even prepared to pray ) that I live long enough to see that swine (along with GWB) get his come-upense.


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    Won't happen, I bet.

    It would set a precedent that elites do not want, that being accountability.

    Don't trust Milliband either.

    He was v much part of that Blair genre, and his brother, David, messed with the law here, to ensure that visiting Israeli 'politicians' could be out of the reach of arrest.

    And their father entered this country illegally.

    And was a Marxist.
     
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    They have changed his Wiki lately it used to say Ralph Milliband was a vehemently Anti Zionist, Communist, Polsh Jew, now they say he was a Belgique socialist ? The Anti Zionist was hopeful but obviously another one hits the dust.

    Mmm Cameron is half Polish too, funny eh on his Mas side, his Pas first wife, The daughter of a Banker :) no Wiki at all on his Scottish Pa at the mo, there used to be .

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    Clegg is a funny old mixture too

    Clegg was born in 1967 in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. He is the third of four children of Nicholas Peter Clegg, CBE, the chairman of United Trust Bank,[4] and a former trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation[5] (where Ken Clarke was an adviser[6]). On his father's side of the family Clegg is related to Kira von Engelhardt, daughter of a Russian baron of German, Polish, and Ukrainian origin, Ignaty Zakrevsky, an attorney general of the Imperial Russian senate,[7][8] the writer Moura Budberg,[9] and his English grandfather Hugh Anthony Clegg, editor of the British Medical Journal for 35 years.[10]

    Clegg's Dutch mother, Hermance van den Wall Bake,[11] was interned, along with her family, by the Japanese military in Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) during World War Two. She met Clegg's father during a visit to England in 1956,[10] and they married on 1 August 1959.[12]

    Clegg is multilingual: he speaks English, French, Dutch, German, and Spanish.[13][14][15] His background has informed his politics. He says, "There is simply not a shred of racism in me, as a person whose whole family is formed by flight from persecution, from different people in different generations. It’s what I am. It’s one of the reasons I am a liberal."[16] His Dutch mother instilled in him "a degree of scepticism about the entrenched class configurations in British society".[17]


    And their wives ? lol
     
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    Cameron swooned like someone getting an Oscar, when he declared some Jew roots.

    He is always pandering to them, as well, saying how much he wishes to empower them.

    Never mind the other 98% of us then, eh David, as long as they are empowered.

    And, on the other side, Ed Miliband, part of the spawn of new Labour, and imo, one that Zionist Jews could count on.

    After all, in the end, loyalty to that tribe is hard to break, right? ;)

    Of course, not to mention this, which for some reason, we have in all three parties, and I am sure it is just an innocent coincidence, which in no way is anything but good for all of us, right?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Friends_of_Israel

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Friends_of_Israel

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Friends_of_Israel
     
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    Devon; it's bloody cold here too!
     
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    I like Devon.

    My uncle lives in Honiton.
     
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    DonGlock26 New Member Past Donor

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    It's funny how this is all being being done by the "US", but if Bush were in office his name would be used constantly. You guys are missing a few dozen "Obamas".
     
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    Come again?
     
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    This warmongering, is it Obama's doing?
     
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    Not all of it, no.

    And he is just a puppet, it is the hand inside the puppet that is really culpable.
     
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    DonGlock26 New Member Past Donor

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    Was Bush just a puppet too? Was all the Bush hatred unjustified?
     

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