Ex Dutch Prime Minister: USA is a rogue state

Quote from msfe:

Prince Philip - a "cuntinental European" ?

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, was born Prince of Greece and Denmark in Corfu on 10 June 1921; the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece. His paternal family is of Danish descent - Prince Andrew was the grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Prince Louis became a naturalised British subject in 1868, joined the Royal Navy and rose to become an Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord in 1914. During the First World War he changed the family name to Mountbatten and was created Marquess of Milford Haven. Prince Philip adopted the family name of Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject and renounced his Royal title in 1947.

Prince Louis married one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Thus, The Queen and Prince Philip both have Queen Victoria as a great-great-grandmother. They are also related through his father's side. His paternal grandfather, King George I of Greece, was Queen Alexandra's brother.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page413.asp

nice try
 
Quote from msfe:

apart from a few negligeable exceptions in the extreme South (Maastricht area) the Netherlands were liberated not by Americans ... but by Canadian, British, Polish, French, Belgian armed forces.

excerpt from

Victims of Circumstance:
The Execution of German Deserters by
Surrendered German Troops Under Canadian
Control in Amsterdam, May 1945


Chris Madsen


... On 1 December 1954, Prime Minister Winston Churchill clarified, in the British House of Commons, the situation at the end of the war: "No trouble could in any case have arisen with the Soviets unless they had continued their advance to a point at which they forced the breaking out of a new war between Russia and her Western allies . . . we should certainly in that case rearm the German prisoners in our hands."86 Churchill and other important officials in the British government remained distrustful of Soviet intentions; again and again, the Russians appeared to disregard the terms of the Yalta Agreement. Thus, in Churchill's view, surrendered German troops, kept in existing German military formations, represented a safe card for the British position. In the event of new hostilities, vanquished German units and British military forces would have combined against an offensive Red Army.87 Thus, the two and half million German prisoners of war in Commonwealth hands represented a huge strategic reserve. Montgomery, directed by Churchill, gave "a "stand still" order regarding the destruction of German weapons and equipment, in case they might be needed by the Western Allies for any reason."88 Canadian military formations, under the strategic command of Montgomery, shared in these arrangements. On 4 June 1945, the First Canadian Army directed Blaskowitz to reorganize and consolidate units within the Twenty-Fifth German Army. ...

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwmsds/vol2n1circumstancemasden.htm


Obviously the US was the key participant in the assault on the German western front. That's a fact so clear not even somebody as versed in self-deception as yourself can escape it. But I'll give you points for trying.

And I'm rather puzzled by the paragraph you quoted, which says nothing about the liberators of the Netherlands.
 
...still not paying attention.

Not one question (or even misguided rant) about the Bekaa Valley. Not one mention in 6 pages of continuous posts.

While the keys to the kingdom lie buried beneath poppy fields, continued disinterest and pointless bickering over WWII and the distinction between Germans and Dutchmen.

You guys are smart and bold to boot. A friend of mine is a day trader like I asume many of you are. He referred me to this site. Successful day traders are logical, intelligent and gutsy.

Put that to use. Find the dots and connect them. Get off of this yakity-yak board for a while and do some meaningful research. Use the analytical skills you have honed to identify and follow trends and values.

Dump the politics for just a bit and go dig.

I shouldn't have to hold your hand and show you everything.

Or, then again, keep wasting your time arguing.
 
Quote from IntelHack:

...still not paying attention.

Put that to use. Find the dots and connect them. Get off of this yakity-yak board for a while and do some meaningful research. Use the analytical skills you have honed to identify and follow trends and values.

Dump the politics for just a bit and go dig.

I shouldn't have to hold your hand and show you everything.

Or, then again, keep wasting your time arguing.

Fuck off grandad

And why we're at - why are you bothering to waste your time if this is such a waste of time -we'll do what we want, when we want, take our humour when we want, do our research when we want, fuck our wives when we want, play with our children when we want, trade the markets when we want - which may also co incide with when there are good trades to make - eat, sleep, go out, in fact whatever we want, whenever we want. We don't need some big mouth who probably hasn't been trading for that long or with much sucess telling us how to run our fucking lives. I've been trading for ten years. On a good day I may trade 15 to 20 thousand lots in the bund or the ten year, and I don't require snivelling little shits like you lording it around, over me or my mates. So fuck off and do your baby research somewhere else. Actually, just fuck off. wanker.
 
Quote from Hello_Dollars:

It's precisely that kind of pompous self-righteousness that drives us crazy. Who are you Europeans to tell us what the "right thing" is. Europe is the epitome of hypocricy, self-dealing and appeasement. And how many messes have you created that we've been forced to clean up for you? The arrogance is unbelievable.

Listen, you are no longer world powers. In fact, you are barely relevant. Your time has come and long gone. America is now your daddy. So I suggest you deal with it, junior, and stop acting like the recalcitrant son before I have to give you a timeout.

By the way, since when did the French become a race? An obnoxious tribe, perhaps. But race, no.
Who are we? Just human beings, same as you. That's not pompous or self-righteous - not being a citizen of the world's superpower does not make your views and rights irrelevant. Empires fall when they become arrogant and overreach their power. Happened to Rome, happened to us.

I'm not sure I understand why your reaction to the great fortune of your birth as an American is so much anger towards the rest of the world. Shouldn't you be pleased?

Also, if Europe is so irrelevant, why do you give a pair of Dingo's kidneys whether or not European countries support your war? Surely if you're in charge now you can manage perfectly well without France, Spain and Liechtenstein? Why so angry?
 
Quote from LRD:

Also, if Europe is so irrelevant, why do you give a pair of Dingo's kidneys whether or not European countries support your war? Surely if you're in charge now you can manage perfectly well without France, Spain and Liechtenstein? Why so angry?

I guess the anger stems from the total mess we've created, add in that the lack of WMD's (vs an abundance of WMDeception, lol) causes quite some cognitive dissonance, and, hey presto, you've got yourself some very muddled people.

As muddled people often have a hard time finding a way out of their self imposed state, they resort to anger. Sort of like Bush, actually.

:D
 
Quote from LRD:

Also, if Europe is so irrelevant, why do you give a pair of Dingo's kidneys whether or not European countries support your war?

I don't. But it is precisely that falacy -- that the war on terror is "America's War" and not the civilized world's -- that indicates a typical abdication of responsibility in the face of blood-thirsty evil which explains better than anything else why Europe sans Britain is in a state of inevitable decline.

But despite Europe's claimed superiority in thought and action, most of us in this Good and Great nation know better. You are nothing more than the worst of hypocrites and would not hesitate one bit to cut a deal with the devil himself if there were some extra Euros in it for you.

So that is why we treat your stated objections with such disdain. We simply know that you are, as our good buddies the French say, full of merde.
 
Quote from Hello_Dollars:

But it is precisely that falacy -- that the war on terror is "America's War" and not the civilized world's --

The only fallacy I see here is that certain people actually erroneously think we are doing anything against terror, when all we have been doing is give it a great old promotion drive for free, whilst raping a harmless country so we can then rob it, all courtesy of the spin, lies and deceit of Coward-in-Chief Dubya Bush.
 
Quote from Hello_Dollars:

I don't. But it is precisely that falacy -- that the war on terror is "America's War" and not the civilized world's -- that indicates a typical abdication of responsibility in the face of blood-thirsty evil which explains better than anything else why Europe sans Britain is in a state of inevitable decline.

But despite Europe's claimed superiority in thought and action, most of us in this Good and Great nation know better. You are nothing more than the worst of hypocrites and would not hesitate one bit to cut a deal with the devil himself if there were some extra Euros in it for you.

So that is why we treat your stated objections with such disdain. We simply know that you are, as our good buddies the French say, full of merde.
I think the problem is that some people don't believe that countering terrorism is best achieved by invading places. That doesn't mean that those people think terrorists are great guys or that their threat should be ignored.

You make a very good point when you say that this conbflict is the civilised world's (I'm assuming that you are happy to include Europe amongst the civilised world, for which many thanks). Since you admit that this is our problem too, you must allow us to have an input into how we deal with the problem.

The American government may be right. Personally I think it is unlikely, I just don't see the logic in turning nations against us as a means to dealing with angry groups internationally, but I am of course happy to admit that I'm not in possession of all the facts. But when intelligent people whom I respect - in Europe, in America and around the world - express such misgivings with the way things are being conducted, I have to listen.

As you say, it's all of our problem. That means the solution should be all of ours too. And that means listening to each other.
 
Quote from LRD:

I think the problem is that some people don't believe that countering terrorism is best achieved by invading places.

lol, particularly places that had nothing, zilch, nada to do with international terror -- until we invaded them for totally cooked up reasons, diverting limited resources from what should have been the number one priority, fighting international terror and it's causes, but which unfortunately was neglected because we just happen to have a bunch of deranged, corrupt and incredibly dangerous Neo-Con nutters who have hijacked this country running the place until they get kicked out come November, I sincerely hope for the security and stability of this planet, if we actually want to fight terror and it's causes as opposed to strengthening it, that is, and for the sake of democracy, civil rights, and judicial due process in the US itself.
 
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