Replies to post #486669 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

The Falkland Islands? Now that was a conflict that seemed utterly pointless to me. Why were you thinking of it?

[blackhawks]

The 'wobbly' remark was made by Thatcher to GHW Bush after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. Shortly into the next conflict with Iraq someone remarked 'real men go to Bagdad', an implied criticism of Bush I.

As it turned out the real man thought things though as in 'then what'? We saw the 'then what' tragically play out over the next 8 years.