Once a ponner time there was this kerfuffle in Britain that did immense damage to the local law enforcement agencies and it all could have been circumvented if the perp had just put his head on the block right at the start.

It's not as if he needed a fair trial or anything; he was king after all.

People had a bit of a skewed version of the events. There was no massive level of hunting going on, only normal legal methods, that got drawn out by his behaviour.

This was always a problem with "that" generation. The people in their dotage now, were the same generation that were leaving their IFF on over the whole journey to Germany and back in the early forties.

Apparently they used to think it was "lucky". (Don't ask me why. Apparently when you are stressed-out you start relying on superstition more than logic.)

Fortunately not many of them have survived to become computer users. Or if they did, they got so badly mauled in the 1990's that they gave it all up as a bad job along time ago.

In Iraq, the US and British and other allied forces removed the ruling party and destroyed the US armaments the Iraqi forces had. The Iraqi army virtually melted into the background. To this day the "insurgents" don't know who they are dealing with.

I presume you don't know the meaning of the term insurgent:
1: a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially : a rebel not recognized as a belligerent
2: one who acts contrary to the policies and decisions of one's own political party

In either description the term hardly applies in Iraq or Afghanistan. So maybe I shouldn't use it to describe the aliens who have taken such misery with them to those places. But what the hell; it's not as though I am going to lose any karma over it.

A bit like the Police Party in Quartzsite you mean.

>>It seems that the USA has become the neonazi military regime. It barely worked in Korea,

>the US's Commander In Chief not been utterly incompetent at everything he ever did.

I can't work out where you are agreeing with me. At first glance you appear to be disagreeing but not with anything I said.
It must be my bad Karma -whatever that is.

Or again, maybe.

Half price heads?
Must be losing money hand over fist.

For dollars you could get a second hand for the price of ... ermmm....
First hand in... ah feckit you work it out.

'Round my Indian shanty in the gutters wave paraiahs,
In the distant recycling centre and leper colony.
Oftentimes my thoughts revert to scenes of childhood,
Where I first received my lessons, nature's school.
But one thing there is missing in the picture,
Without her face it seems so incomplete.
I long to see my mother in the doorway,
As she stood there years ago, on all her feet.

Oh, the starlight's fair tonight in Martain orbit,
And the red dust smells just like I've never been away.
In thin atmosphere the candles' hardly gleaming,
On the backs of the dobi wallahs, far away.

What we really need is an outlay like this that can be used by General Patton and ...who was that imbecile they replaced him with for D-Day?

errrr..
It looks a bit like a wheel barrow with antenna like handles and those hydrostatic non-friction wheels (that haven't been invented yet.)

Only bigger.

How much can you earn for wrecking a country you took over illegally?
How much of that do the widows get?

Never mind:
>So when can we expect "conspiracy to defraud" cases to be initiated against,
>the suits in charge of RBS leading up to the 2008 financial crisis?
WHEN CAN WE SEE THE LIKES OF TORY B. LIAR in court AND IN GAOL at twice the going rate.

Tell people there's the film of the book and... W_H_A_P_!_!_!
Tell people there's the weapons of mass destruction and... meh we all knew that.

It's all about the Arab Spring isn't it?
Australia to Malasia, China and Vietnam; they are all worried about who's in charge of the boat. The UK and the USA just want everyone to sit down like good little passengers. They are not worried at all about who is making waves. How come?

They control the committees that look into their nefarious deeds.
But then...
So does China, Vietnam, Malasia and Australia.

An AK 47 isn't exactly used for its long range effects.

hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/MariaPereyra.shtml:
"The velocity (speed) of rifle bullets varies between 600 and 5000 feet (180 and 1500 meters) per second. Some bullets can hit targets as far away as 6000 ...

Only if count on the fact that US pilots were not up against Russian ones.

The USSR would hardly send the best batches of the very latest stuff to even very friendly allies since those very friendly allies tended to hate the USSR with passion.

Russian rocket engines were far superior to US ones for the reason given above. They just got it done and made improvements on the shop floor.

Rolls Royce sold them their first jet engines, not realising their capabilities to make do and mend would allow them to produce superior versions of the same and have them in fighters within a few years and have the older ones sent to whatever satellite war zone was part of the great game at the time.

Even in WW2 they were utilising failed armaments intended for things such as gun shells as rocket warheads. The Wehrmacht was just scrapping their duds and recycling them and at a time it could least afford to be particular.

In other words the German war effort was over-engineered and they lost. The Russians were hands on, low tech, high volume, modification oriented -as was Britain to a lesser extent; and they won.

It seems that the USA has become the neonazi military regime. It barely worked in Korea, failed miserably in Vietnam and hasn't even got started yet in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Back in the air but not on active service?
For a nation at war it is fortunate it has its choice of enemies.

I rather think Iran is going to with their next one. Especially if all it has to do is sell oil and not import any more Windows operating systems.

In fact an oil rich embargoed country has never been put to the test. A coal rich embargoed country managed to conquer most of Europe twice in half a century.

I have no problem with that.
If someone said something nasty about me, I'd want their testicle in a jar. If they were saying it anonymously I'd want even more bits, hands, tongues, noses -that sort of thing.