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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 23 Aug 2014 00:22

:-D Bob!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

BillinOz

BillinOz Report 23 Aug 2014 00:21

HeHe Bob. :-) :-D :-D

If you want to know what Blair has been up to, Just Google "Tony Blair's Secrets"

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 22 Aug 2014 20:57

strange My spellcheck always wants to correct that, as



B'liar

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Denburybob

Denburybob Report 22 Aug 2014 19:57

I don't know what you are all worrying about. Tony Blair will sort it all out, after all, he is the "Middle East Peace Envoy". Or am I missing something? Bob

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 22 Aug 2014 10:38

Maybe, Graham, but the big powers(allegedly) use these conflicts for "proving, or disproving" their latest(or possibly obsolete )weaponry.........

Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Sharron

Sharron Report 22 Aug 2014 10:33

We British have always enjoyed interfering with the what the Infidel was conducting himself.

We were probably due another crusade.

Graham

Graham Report 22 Aug 2014 10:25

The trick is to keep them all fighting each other, so none of them get the chance to become too powerful ;-)

Dermot

Dermot Report 22 Aug 2014 09:27

'My enemy's enemy is my friend' - I think.

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 22 Aug 2014 09:02

The quest for oil has a lot to answer for :-(

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 22 Aug 2014 09:01

actually I didn't write that article, I got it, as you do in a Email, but Sharron you MAY have hit the nail on the head there......

yeah, Ofitg

all about priorities, and being able to leave trusty underlings in charge while going on holiday.........

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

BillinOz

BillinOz Report 22 Aug 2014 08:59

I agree with you all. my Idea would be to supply them all with arms of Mass destruction. then close the door.

Sharron

Sharron Report 22 Aug 2014 08:51

I feel I must correct one point.

It's not Saudi Arabia that we like, it is the slimy black stuff underneath Saudi Arabia that we need.

BillinOz

BillinOz Report 22 Aug 2014 08:48

It all started with Lawrence of Arabia, and his dividing up the area to suit the British Government. My father was his second in Command of the Camel Corps.

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 22 Aug 2014 08:31

Bobtanian - I liked your explanation on the current situation in Iraq, a problem that goes back much further than the invasion in 2003, it goes back to events connected to the First World War when Britain ended up being the main power in the region.

That aside, it must have all been sorted out when the Prime Minister David Cameron came back to Downing Street on Wednesday past, as he is back enjoying his holiday strolling along the beaches in Cornwall ;-)

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 22 Aug 2014 01:09

Keep your friends close.

Keep your enemies closer.

:-S

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 22 Aug 2014 00:53

Well said Bob :-D :-D :-D

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 22 Aug 2014 00:09

Well when you put it like that Bob... :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 22 Aug 2014 00:06

Let me explain.


We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.

We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.

We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him.

We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.

So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends,

and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose,

but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.

If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less.

And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists

who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out.



It's quite simple, really.

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960