I 100% agree, Germany wanted to go futhur in 91. Bush said no, so now we are here again. We could of tooken out Saddam then and the world would be happy now, British have military bases in Germany as well. We got bases in the UK, Portgual, and Spain. WE got bases in Turkey (We did) Greece (we still might actually) frankly US didn't get invovled because of WW1. Lots of americans would going with what Geogre Washington said "WE shouldn't get invovled in any tangling treaties" America doesn't wanna get invovled in european wars because it doesn't benefit them andthats the truth. Either way Saddam was worth it in 1991 cause it wouldn't of cost as much he was a defeated man, we didn't have Bin laden and the type as major figure heads, and we had the UN's support.
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I 100% agree, Germany wanted to go futhur in 91. Bush said no, so now we are here again. We could of tooken out Saddam then and the world would be happy now, British have military bases in Germany as well. We got bases in the UK, Portgual, and Spain. WE got bases in Turkey (We did) Greece (we still might actually) frankly US didn't get invovled because of WW1. Lots of americans would going with what Geogre Washington said "WE shouldn't get invovled in any tangling treaties" America doesn't wanna get invovled in european wars because it doesn't benefit them andthats the truth. Either way Saddam was worth it in 1991 cause it wouldn't of cost as much he was a defeated man, we didn't have Bin laden and the type as major figure heads, and we had the UN's support.
Both britain and america have bases all over britain...
where I grew up there were a number of american bases in the area,
There was an active airforce base (as in with runways etc) some ten or so miles up the road, (which meant I saw a load of cool american places as a child). closer than that to me (well my parents as I've moved away now) there is another american airforce base, that's just a communications base though... (that's where my girlfriends dad worked)...
and about seven miles away there is (or was) another base, I think that was a supply base though...
all of that in such a tiny area of britain, (I think the bases were no more than ten miles apart from each other) each have (or had -only one is still opperational) good road links, one had a private rail link into it, and the other (not the air base) has a nice landing strip anyway (just in case?)...
Britan has bases all over the world as well. (I don't think that there is many in america, due to it's isolation from other landmasses)...
This is what makes me laugh when people complain that britain and america work too closley as a team and that britain should concerntrait on working with europe...
Britain and america have worked as a close military team for years, they have bases and ties in each others country and they share research readily...
to put it simply Britain works so closly with America because there is simply no ways to cut ties effectivly! it's a match that was made a long time ago, and it's a match that was made with very close ties in each others countries.
where I grew up there were a number of american bases in the area,
There was an active airforce base (as in with runways etc) some ten or so miles up the road, (which meant I saw a load of cool american places as a child). closer than that to me (well my parents as I've moved away now) there is another american airforce base, that's just a communications base though... (that's where my girlfriends dad worked)...
and about seven miles away there is (or was) another base, I think that was a supply base though...
all of that in such a tiny area of britain, (I think the bases were no more than ten miles apart from each other) each have (or had -only one is still opperational) good road links, one had a private rail link into it, and the other (not the air base) has a nice landing strip anyway (just in case?)...
Britan has bases all over the world as well. (I don't think that there is many in america, due to it's isolation from other landmasses)...
This is what makes me laugh when people complain that britain and america work too closley as a team and that britain should concerntrait on working with europe...
Britain and america have worked as a close military team for years, they have bases and ties in each others country and they share research readily...
to put it simply Britain works so closly with America because there is simply no ways to cut ties effectivly! it's a match that was made a long time ago, and it's a match that was made with very close ties in each others countries.
Gotta go back to the time. In 1775 three notable powers, England, Spain, and France. In 1783 or so there was Colonies, Spain, France, 1801 or so there was Colonies and Spain. But America had grown basically out of England, and even with the two wars (Revoluation, and War of 1812 we still got a along) they were as my teacher says "Gentlemen wars" One side fights the other, one side loses, one side wins. However when deciding how which Language should be spoken in America colonies at first the choices were Hebrew, German, and English then German and English and I believe German lost out by ONE VOTE. So if that would of been the case then we'd be more closely alied to Germany.
I haven't never heard of any British bases in America... Maybe in Canada and so forth but not America. Either way the language is what ties us so close. Look at all the English speaking countries they are pretty much one team, Aussies, Canada, America, and UK. There are African countries that are primarly english though as well. But either way, America and Britian have always worked closely together.
I haven't never heard of any British bases in America... Maybe in Canada and so forth but not America. Either way the language is what ties us so close. Look at all the English speaking countries they are pretty much one team, Aussies, Canada, America, and UK. There are African countries that are primarly english though as well. But either way, America and Britian have always worked closely together.
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You & I have lived & worked in the same areas, during WW2 my mother & lived in Huntingdon with my Gran, my father sent us there away from the blitz, & about 7 miles up the road was Alconbury, all USAF in those days, Flying Fortesses, combined with RAF later, on a base 3 miles on from there, were Liberators, just a mile up the road from where Ilived, was a US POW camp holding Germans who were escorted out to repair pavements & roads, we kids never went short of chewing gum, later, after we returned to Portsmouth, I was called up, & was stationed in Lincolnshire in the RAF at Stenigot, 11 miles from Lincoln, one Xmas we were snowed in by 8 foot snowdrifts, & had to have food supplies dropped to us from RAF Manby, so yes,I'm very familiar with a wide area with the fens & East Anglia, m'duck, as they would say, those names familiar?, more to tell by PM's if you'd like.root said:
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I've printed the map off, thanks, mmmm, I'm familiar/know of several places, Buckingham & Bicester of course, & wow, Woodstock, have you been to events there, & trudged through the mud?, my cousin lives in a district called New Duston, a mile from Northampton.root said:
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English please.X1337 said:
