On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:23:21PM +0000, member jessejazza wrote:
Talking of which i've just been in touch with the PM. It is fine having a fancy party but everyone seems to have forgotten who sold Exocet missiles to the Argentinians during the Falklands War. I asked him to explain how the French are our allies - we of course put France on the right track after WW2 but what have they ever done for us! Invented lots of EU rules... but never follow them!
Erm, I'm sure if you could stop being xenophobic and did some research you will see that the French gave us lots of information and assistance during the Falklands war to help the British task force to defend themselves against Exocet. They obviously couldn't do it publically because it would hurt their arms sales around the world but they did do it. Also, the missiles used in the conflict were not sold *during* the war, they were supplied beforehand and the French didn't sell any missiles to them during hostilities and helped stop further missiles being supplied to them from the global arms market.
If you look at is further the British had also sold the Argentinians arms in the past including English Electric Canberras and they had surface to air missiles that were British in design so quite how come the French were the bad guys in this I don't know. Also, to top that all off the Argentinians also had plenty of American sourced weapons too.
That isn't the only thing that the French have done for us in Great Britain but if you don't want to believe that then fine, but please keep your xenophobia off this list which is about Linux please.
Adam