I used to like Obama..BUT

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
20/09/2011 11:52

This has b'all to do with Cyprus, but



what happened to the 'special relationship' ?



"This week the OAS General Assembly at its meeting in San Salvador passed by unanimous consent, and Washington signed, a “draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands”.



http://en.mercopress.com/2011/06/09/uk-press-reacts-to-obama-s-support-for-argentina-in-the-malvinas-islands-issue



There was ME thinking they were and are called the FALKLANDS... by the folk who LIVE there...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
20/09/2011 21:47

Falklands = British Overseas Territory.

Brinsley


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Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 22:08

Bill

Do they have the same EU rights & status as the French DOM TOM's?



Richard

russianbabe


Joined: 19/08/2011
Posts: 130

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 22:18

YES WE CAN

obama rules

Brinsley


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Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 22:26

Alan Clark (if alive) would have replied that his overseas, foreign World knowledge would be limited to "Bongo Bongoland"!!



Richard

joseph


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Posts: 709

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 22:29

Hi M's how are you... long time no chat



Knowing your expertise on Russia don't you find it ironic that having dislodged the shakles of Socialism and moving towards a more capitalist economy which has seen them re-enrich their society... America votes in an out and out Socialist that is moving them towards what Russia once was... crazy...



They have almost swapped roles?



Regards to you and yours .. Joseph

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 22:45

Not a problem;



kick US out of Diego Garcia, pull out of Afghanistan, deny them use of any of our airfields anywhere in the world.



Indite his Kenyan kin for war crimes.



That should sort it.

professoregit


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Posts: 381

Message Posted:
20/09/2011 23:12

Lets hope we stuff it back at them and vote for recognition of a palestinian state tomorrow, full on or

or most probably the next best thing.

YFred


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Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
21/09/2011 01:44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8



Enjoy.

andre514


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Posts: 763

Message Posted:
21/09/2011 02:34

mark message 1:



you appear to be re-learning in middle age

that states tend to do what suits them at the time, or "obama" as you term it



your keen sense of history should tell you that america was put on the spot

way back at the time of the argentine invasion, being very reluctant to throw

the junta to the wolves at a critical time in the cold war



while following the logic of your passing reference to the folk who live there,

this could easily apply to the interests of the folk who live here in north cyprus

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/09/2011 06:38

Yes but no one lived on the Falklands until Brits made it their home... It might be near (well 300 miles off) Argentina but if you accept that principle half of the world would change hands...

The Argies only want it because somebody else found a use for it.

slatnumber7


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Posts: 299

Message Posted:
21/09/2011 07:38

This doesn't look to me as if the Obama administration are supporting Buenos Aires more like they are seeking to curry favour from the likes of Venezuela and Nicaragua.



Hugo Charvez is terminally ill, when the change in leadership comes perhaps a more moderate person might be prepared to trade with America.



Now what natural resources are there in Venezuela that America would want more of?

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
21/09/2011 09:41

Well aware that O'Bama was trying to look good with fellow continental neighbours.. but that is HIS 'problem'..



It says this was unanimous... Canada, too ? :(





Andre514 - I learnt that all the peoples of the island had rights !

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
21/09/2011 11:50

No surprise



The US is courting South America. European nations are on the wane and latin america is rising. Whilst Cameron and Sarkozy were struggling over Libya, Obama was touring and trying to win friends in South America. Perhaps we might see an all American trading zone very similar to the European union.



Will Obama ever be in love with the British, perhaps not after his conversations with his father.



Do we have a special relationship with the US? They shafted us at Suez and Mcmillan had to beg Kennedy for nuclear missiles. The US was ready to destroy Britain in the thirties? It planned to attack Canada, take out our naval base at Novia Scotia and cut off our supply lines. Slowly but surely, it would twist the knife and dismember the British empire. It was called the 'red plan'.



Obama, called France Americas greatest ally, not the British. Perhaps the war of American independence is not forgotten and Obama is more of an American than most people realise.