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Old 1st Feb 2013, 20:08
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keesje
 
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Frankly I find some of the comments here sub-standard and childish.

I won't say uninformed, but lacking any objectivity all the more.

Many "don't ask" guys?

Wake up, it aint all black and white.

Margaret Thatcher's government secretly offered to hand over sovereignty of the Falklands islands two years before the invasion by Argentine forces in 1982.

The secret meeting was disclosed in the official history of the Falklands by Sir Lawrence Freedman. He revealed that the cabinet's defence committee approved a plan whereby Britain would hand Argentina titular sovereignty over the islands, which would then be leased back by Britain for 99 years.

The British and Argentinian flags would be flown side by side on public buildings on the islands. British administration would continue with a view to guaranteeing the islanders and their descendants "uninterrupted enjoyment of their way of life".
Time to break links with Falklands and Gibraltar | UK news | guardian.co.uk

In times of war, truth is the first victim. Now up for discrediting the next source/ messenger..
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