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Thread #146309   Message #3394821
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Aug-12 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
"The false and ludicrous statements"
Neither false nor ludicrous.
At the time the sinking of the Belgrano was at best, controversial, many nations, even Britain's allies treated it as a possible war crime.
Thatcher was uneasy enough about its legality to lie and claim that the ship was within the agreed restriction line, and was fordced to withdraw this after she had been humiliated by a schoolteacher on a phone-in
The sinking of a ship outside an agreed restriction zone and steaming away from battle remains unresolved: Thatcher was forced to say at her public humiliation that "One day the truth will be known" - that definitive "truth" has yet to be revealed and it continues to be a matter for argument.
What is ludicrous is that a pair of tossers like you and Termite should have some sort of "refutation" - no such exists, no matter how many quotes our shootist friend comes up with from British Commanders, the killing of a ship-full of men not involved in battle is at best an extremely dubious act - every bit as dubious as machinegunning shipwrecked sailors because they might prove a future threat.
Personally, as I said in the beginning, I really don't give a toss one way or the other. If, as Richard said, it was one of the few things Thatcher got right, so be it, it doesn't alter the fact that her government was the nearest thing Britain ever got to an extremist fascist dictatorship and if you want to use a possible war crime as a diversion from that fact - feel free.
Jim Carroll