ON TUESDAY the Franks report largely exonerated Thatcher for her handling of the Falklands war. The report whitewash dealing none of the crucial issues.
Thatcher waged war over a rock in the South Atlantic with a than a Village. net result was thousand dead and E3 billion wasted far.
As Labour MP Tam Dalyell revealed in the House of Commons, at an early stage of the war when the Argentinians were putting out peace feelers Thatcher had the Argentinian warship Belgrano sunk to ensure the war would continue. Far from being in the exclusion zone, or posing a threat to forces, the Belgrano was on its way home.
Argentinian sailors perished in this atrocity, for which Thatcher personally gave the order.
At the end of the war nothing had been gained for the population of the 2000 pointless deaths Falklands, only some political prestige for Thatcher. £3 billion wasted the war the Falklanders relied THATCHER on for medical care, food post and supplies of every kind. Now they completely isolated for hospital care they have to come thousands of miles to Britain.
IS Sooner or later a settlement will have made The rule of the Falklands, whose people were even deprived of citizenship in 1981, is a relic of a nearly extinct empire. The millions of pounds being spent on the British garrison will not prevent the eventual CLUTCE of the islands to Argentina Franks says That cher was justified. We say she caused 2000 pointless deaths, wasted billions of pounds and whipped up disturia. History wir war hysteria. render a verdict of
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