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Behemoth

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:09 pm Post subject:

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:12 pm Post subject:

Andy B wrote:

I think hes a very nice man, always ready to step in and help. You dont see the French doing that!

You OK hun? Have you had a hard week? I think you may need some serious help

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:26 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Andy B wrote:

I think hes a very nice man, always ready to step in and help. You dont see the French doing that!

You OK hun? Have you had a hard week? I think you may need some serious help

Your not American are you ! I am OK honest ! Please dont send the inspectors round again.

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:30 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

In a lot of ways I'm sure the "Western Alliance" is loving the fact that Iran's going nuclear, and the recent "kill Israel" speech too. So many reasons to get in there, and oh so conveniently located for access to central asian oil and gas reserves too...

Here's a rather chilling link for you, whether you're American or Iranian (or Essexian, even):

https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/29/144031/104

Peter.

Andy B

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:38 pm Post subject:

Blue Peter wrote:

tahir wrote:

Here's a rather chilling link for you, whether you're American or Iranian (or Essexian, even):

https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/29/144031/104

Peter.

What worries me is that people are so selfish, if people were prepared to pull together on things we would be Ok. But most peoples concern for the wellbeing of others doesn't usually hold up under normal circumstances, let alone when under stress. And once people's standard of living is affected they wont care who gets stamped on to get it. I might be going through a downer on the human race patch

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:43 pm Post subject:

Andy B wrote:

I agree with that - just look what happens when there's a slight scare about fuel availability - people immediately rush to the petrol stations, panic buying, which causes a problem that proabably wasn't there, and they do this however many times they're told don't panic....... I really shudder to think how quickly anarchy would descend upon us if there really was a major problem....

Blue Peter

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Milton Keynes

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 12:46 pm Post subject:

Andy B wrote:

I think that partly it's because people talk about Iran or Iraq or whatever, without remembering that there are millions of people there pretty much like you and me. The war on Iraq has killed what, 100,000 Iraqis? any action on Iran will kill similar numbers of ordinary people (not terrorists, supporters of terrorists, etc.). It's just so abstract that we go along with it,

Peter.

Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 1:15 pm Post subject:
I've just filled my tank.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 1:17 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

I've just filled my tank.

Honestly - it's people like you that just spoil it for everyone else.

Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 1:20 pm Post subject:
It was the kangaroo dance that alerted me to the need. Fuel guage is broken and I forgot to set the trip meter las time I filled up.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 1:21 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

I've just filled my tank.

I know that Leeds is a bit rough but surely a Land Rover or similar would be adequate.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 1:28 pm Post subject:
Soft skinned vehicle! Are you mad? I can only guarentee the safety of my family behind 8" of Chobham armour.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 9:40 am Post subject:
I actually do have grave concerns about the course of action Bush is going to take re Iran. It does stink of Iraq up to a point and he is not exactly doing diplomacy re military force to protect Israel. I am not implying Israel should be left/ignored but there must be a more diplomatic way of phrasing America's concerns.

Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 9:56 am Post subject:

To give Bush his due one of the first things he did was ask Colin Powell to look into why America continued to support Israel given it caused so much grief.

The answer was, loosely, along the lines of: "If we don't stay friends they've threatened they might go 'mad dog' in the region and use what they have to aggresively protect their interests, f'up the region and destroy our oil supplies".

At about this time the US started getting friendly with Central Asian countries and to expand its Alaskan fields. Coincidence?

Bernie66

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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 10:00 am Post subject:
I think the threat of Israeli nuclear/atomic weapons being unleashed worries us all. Is that a good enough reason to threaten the rest of the area with american military every time he opens his mouth though?

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