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[shaunbhoy]

Glad you admit you were totally wrong as usual

The Rawagede massacre was committed by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army on 9 December 1947 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari in West Java), during Operatie Product. Forces of the Royal Netherlands Army were deployed in the East Indies to restore Dutch authority and protect the country's interests in Indonesia. They were battling Indonesian Republican army fighters TNI and militia forces seeking independence for Indonesia or engaging in criminal activities. Almost all males from the village, amounting to 431 men according to most estimates, were killed by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, since the people of the village would not tell where the Indonesian independence fighter Lukas Kustario was hiding.

Not really wrong though. The standing Dutch Army based in Holland managed to last from 10 May till 14th May 1940. Less than 100 "hours" so my allegation still stands.

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army were much pluckier however, and were capable of murdering unarmed freedom fighters. You must be very proud.

[original PM]

while we are on the subject of the war - didn't tens of thousands of people die on the beaches of Normandy trying to stop Europe being ruled by a centralised power?

[LondonManc]

while we are on the subject of the war - didn't tens of thousands of people die on the beaches of Normandy trying to stop Europe being ruled by the same centralised power as now?

FTFY

[BlasterBates]

Two world wars and one world cup doo dah.

FTFY

Sounds good but won't help you win the match.

[original PM]

FTFY

Sounds good but won't help you win the match.

That was not the point.

Unless you are conceding that the EU is really just a German superstate.

[Bean]

And shaun the potato f**ker even puts smileys after and "jokes" about a post about genocide

Bombing of Rotterdam ≠ Genocide

HTH BIDI

[Eirikur]

Bombing of Rotterdam ≠ Genocide

HTH BIDI

Read the thread,
HTH BIDI

[Old Greg]

while we are on the subject of the war - didn't tens of thousands of people die on the beaches of Normandy trying to stop Europe being ruled by a centralised power?

Try to be more specific, and you will avoid the logical fallacy.

[Whorty]

Ironically, this is only possible due to the very freedoms that so many of us put our lives on the line to preserve for one and all in the free world.

Yet those of us who were prepared, during the best years of our lives, to step into the breach and face down the oppressive might of a foe that heavily outnumbered us, bear these sneering ingrates no real ill-will.

We did not stand shoulder to shoulder in Europe's hours of Cold War peril for fame or fortune, we did it because somebody had to and it was the right and proper thing to do and because we were the right and proper people to do it.

History will recall that when courage and fortitude were required, my band of brothers (and sisters) were there to provide it.

And that will do for me.

I raise a glass to my fellow warriors, " I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of free men. And now our watch is over".

Here endeth the lesson!

So moving. So poignant. So heart warming........



..... so you never actual saw active service .... so you sat in a shed hiding behind a wall playing cards with your pals ...

Seems I've seen more activity on the local paintball field than you

[Whorty]

while we are on the subject of the war - didn't tens of thousands of people die on the beaches of Normandy trying to stop Europe being ruled by a centralised power?

A hell of a lot more died under British colonial control .... but I guess that's ok in your and your fellow brexidiot's heads. I bet you're one of the 44% who thinks the British Empire was a good thing?

5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire | The Independent