Reply to: Simon Mann

[sasguru]

Keep your madness to yourself and stop shouting.

[Churchill]

Something tells me that if you don't edit that message smaller you won't be needing any smilies...

Word to the wise...

[Lucy]

Shouldn't you two just get a room and shag each others brains out?

FERRET

I NEED THE VOMIT ICON

NOW!

[Churchill]

Every government wants a piece of the action in Africa, just lke in colonial days, whether it's raw materials and/or selling arms and support to the fighting factions. It would be quicker to list the ones who don't.

Too late, the Chinese have got their grubby little mits all over Africa.

[Marina]

Spain
South africa
UK

Every government wants a piece of the action in Africa, just lke in colonial days, whether it's raw materials and/or selling arms and support to the fighting factions. It would be quicker to list the ones who don't.

[Moscow Mule]

Shouldn't you two just get a room and shag each others brains out?

Perhaps they already have, hence the animosity?

[Churchill]

Your grammar is declining by the hour. Better stop now.

As for writing letters to yourself...

Oh shut it, birdbrain. Don't you have some discussions on make-up to contribute to?

Shouldn't you two just get a room and shag each others brains out?

[sasguru]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Or....
Maybe I don't have any.

But it does seem likely, after all they have to get the plunder plundered.

You're probably right. But in these cases, governments make it clear they have the right to deniability i.e. "You're on your own". He knew the risks, now he has to pay the consequences. The upside was he would have got filthy rich, the downside is he gets to rot in a hell-hole. C'est la vie.

[ace00]

Evidence?

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Or....
Maybe I don't have any.

But it does seem likely, after all they have to get the plunder plundered.

[sasguru]

Counter evidence?

I refer the honourable gentleman to Occam's Razor.

[Moscow Mule]

Evidence?

Counter evidence?

[sasguru]

Spain
South africa
UK

Evidence?

[ace00]

Facts, I deal in facts dear. Not Rapturist fantasy.

Care to list the governments?

Spain
South africa
UK

[sasguru]

And remind me what that "charidee" was you wanted us to give money to?

[sasguru]

Please leave the politics to people who understand it and go back to your abacus or whatever it is you play with.

Wasn't it you who wanted to free Tibet?