Quote Originally Posted by greyhound View Post
Having re-read the thread sober,I admit that I misinterpreted your comments re ragtag army etc...nevertheless,I think that most of your comments regarding Thatcher are typical Morning Star claptrap,on the matter of financial inequality,ask the tens of thousands of people who were able to buy their council houses if they feel hard done by !
Quite right Greyhound. Morning Star Claptrap. The guys just a keyboard warrior who would never have the ba*ls to say things he says on here to peoples faces but hey, from the safety of your keyboard you can say what you like to anyone..yes? As for having a meet up at Charlton with you...LOL. Yes. That’s really going to happen with thousands of people around right? LOL. You got more chance of winning euro millions than him turning up and there will probably be a queue in front of you 😀

Fair play fella as you served in the conflict. I didn’t but have a 20 year background in martial arts including 6 or so years training in self defence with the military. Spent quite a bit of time with UK forces over the years at training camps and at exhibitions at places like the NEC and got to know a few who served in the Falklands. Everything I heard was it was no picnic but a bloody hard slog. Yes the Argentinians were a conscripted army but they were dug in and had home advantage. The post script is that we could have easily lost that conflict if certain people bother to read about it but we didn’t.

I also spent some time in Argentina including time in Ushuaia where their invasion force sailed from. Whilst it’s still a hot potato over there, it’s a doubled edged sword as we helped rid them of a military who killed 70,000 of their own people, so many of them I spoke to whilst pi*sed off about ownership of the islands felt it was a good thing their dictatorship came up against a real army and in that respect we did them a massive favour.

So, ‘ragtag’ army is a term born out of ignorance and disrespects soldiers on both sides. I read his comments correctly first time and they’re disrespectful. As you say, left wing claptrap that dismissed a serious military conflict where people on all sides lost too many. Nice to see you posting👍