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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
and yet Sir John Nott said
As John Nott, the defence secretary at the time, wrote, the Americans "were very, very far from being on our side".
Indeed the relationship was so warm he lied to her about invading a Commonwealth country. Seems to me we only have a relationship on the proviso that we toe their line.
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OOooh don't say that it may ruin the Thatcher fantasy for some.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Blair would have said yes where would you like me to put our troops and thacther would have told him to take a long walk off a short cliff. Not a hard one to answer there and in thatchers time it could be argued we had the better end of whatever special relationship there was although after that we certainly had the brown end of the stick.
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Thatcher was just as much an Atlantacist as Blair was, if the call had come from the US to help them fight communism she would have been as eager as Blair would have been...strangely she did have some flaws Rizzy!!