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Tight Maggot

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  1. Not forgetting Hull gets shortened to Ull !
  2. Maybe the Bee is going to roll in S**t and come back for a free wash.
  3. That's an interesting way to look at it, I guess we can call China - Mongolia, Germany - RussiaAmericaBritain, France - Prussia, and so on.
  4. Not to worry, a lot of things went on in that time period that were covered up (although how you can drop 2.7 million tons of bombs on a neutral country over 4 years and keep it from the general public is beyond me ) There is always two sides of the coin in every discussion/argument, I like to try and see things from both points of view and not to just believe the first thing we are told.
  5. Ok, I will reference Pol Pot and his chums the Khmer Rouge, can you actually believe that both the US and Britain ended up supporting the Khmer Rouge after Vietnam tried to oust them from power. Have a quick search online and you will be enlightened.
  6. Bye the way Exiled Townie, very interesting little story, never heard of that chap before.
  7. I agree with what you are saying regarding the atomic bombs, after some of the battles the US had on the Pacific Islands and seeing how fanatical the Japanese could be there is a very cold case to argue that dropping the bombs on civilian population centres proved not only to the Japanese but also the rest of the world that they had these weapons and would use them if they felt it prudent to do so. I do believe that as much as they wanted to end the war quickly they just as much wanted to send a clear message to Stalin not to get too ambitious in Europe at the wars conclusion.
  8. I often wonder if any form of compensation was paid to either Cambodia or Laos (who also had about 2 million tons dropped on them), I understand the American Generals reasoning behind the bombing but how do you do that to a country and have no accountability is a very sad reflection on how this world operates. The more you look into the history of the "Vietnam War" the more you realise what a load of bull...t we are fed about us (the West) being the good guys and everybody else being Commies, Religous nuts etc. What with the truth eventually coming out about the weapons of mass destruction never existing in Iraq it makes you wonder what has really gone on behind the scenes in Ukraine. I guess we will find out how we got to this situation in X amount of years time.
  9. Does this figure include the 2.7 million tons of bombs dropped on Cambodia ? The USA did not declare war on either country or vice versa so technically the Vietnam War was never a war.
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