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2008-10-04 Britain

Cash-strapped UK navy cuts destroyer fleet

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Posted by lotp 2008-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 We'll always remember Shakespeare & Kipling even after Britain is gone.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-04 05:49|| 2008-10-04 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Care to wager which country goes Islamik first Grom?

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-04 06:23|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-10-04 06:23|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO, your patriotism is a bit misdirected .5MT---but have it your own way. Just one question---you've any idea how many mighty nations like your Britain we've seen come and go in the last four thousand years?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-04 06:51|| 2008-10-04 06:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Britain is not poor. This is an intentional policy. The end stages of terminal leftism. They could probably fund a credible Navy using the money they waste on paying welfare benefits to Muslim fundamentalists.

Posted by Ulusoling Hatfield4645 2008-10-04 07:37|| 2008-10-04 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 IMO you dodged my bet Grom.

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-04 07:55|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-10-04 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Grom, you might try mustering sufficient class to at least be sympathetic. AS YOU KNOW, the reality is that if it wasn't for Britain, there would BE no country called Israel. They wrote the Balfour Declaration, pushed the Mandate through the League of Nations, allowed Jewish immigration for years in the teeth of massive Arab bitching and riot, protected you from those same Arabs who would have been happy to kill the lot of you, and insured victory over the man who would have seen the last of you sacrificed to Moloch.

You Jews OWED them big time and you paid them back with terror, murder and bombings simply for trying to maintain the law. I'm not British but the business of kidnapping and murdering Sergeants Paice and Martin is a lasting stench in the nostrils of decent people everywhere. They were innocent of anything except being British, and your people cold-bloodedly hung them and then booby-trapped the site.

Your people the British punished were bank robbers, bombers and assassins breaking the civil law. After your terror campaign against them, it would have been perfectly understandable if the British would have disarmed your people and let the Arabs run riot at your expense.

Instead, they honorably resigned the Mandate and refused to even provide ammunition to Glubb's Arab Legion when they ran low during the 1948 War. They treated your people a hell of a lot more decently than you treated them.

I've been, and am still, a strong supporter of Israel. I know what your country represents over in that part of the world and appreciate it for what it is. You, however, are one ungrateful S.O.B. because I've seen you criticize both America and Britain numerous times for trivial things when, if it wasn't for those two countries, you and your countrymen would have long since been fed to the flames of a new Auschwitz.

You and your country exist only because America has your back. The British are our allies who are bravely fighting side by side with us in two wars--wars that definitely benefit you and your country, by the way. You would do well to remember that before you start criticizing them on an American blog.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-04 08:01|| 2008-10-04 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 ouch

Posted by bman 2008-10-04 10:05|| 2008-10-04 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 JM is correct. Though he shows to much respect to the insolent little turd by providing him with an explanation for his feelings.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-10-04 10:59|| 2008-10-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, that's getting a little harsh.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-04 11:24|| 2008-10-04 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 gromgoru's been provoking for a good long while.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-04 12:00|| 2008-10-04 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Not to mention the USS Liberty.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-04 12:06|| 2008-10-04 12:06|| Front Page Top

#12 It seems that the best thing for England to do is for some of its wealthier citizens, along with the young men of the Royals, to form a private military in the Caribbean, as a latch ditch effort to save their nation from its elected government.

Importantly, *not* to overthrow the English government, but to have a reserve available in case, once England is disarmed, it is attacked or invaded by a domestic or foreign force in an effort to capture it.

Mostly light infantry, with a few light and fast blue water attack warships and commercial type aircraft to shuttle troops.

The majority of their personnel would be "honorable" foreigners, such as Gurkhas and Sikhs, willing to engage in ferocious, no quarter combat against their enemies, in an exterminate or be exterminated fight.

To authorize this, the King would have to leave England, appointing a Protector to restore order. Parliament would be dissolved, and those responsible for the disorder, foreign and domestic, would be put to the sword.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-04 12:26|| 2008-10-04 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 the King would have to leave England

I suggest they outsource the navy to Blackwater or such and find someone who can pull the sword out of that damn stone.

And btw, nice rant JM!

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-04 13:43|| 2008-10-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey, look at the bright side; once all the RN ships are laid up, Iran cannot capture any and humiliate the country by parading the sailors around. And the cash saved by NOT having to ransom them can then be used for other important things, like mookfare

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-10-04 20:35|| 2008-10-04 20:35|| Front Page Top

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