On his visit to Libya Mr Blair aggree Defence co-opration with Libya including selling missile and other weapon to Libya. A country not long ago was accused of suporting and arming Rebel in Many African states and stil has a bad human rigth record is this the kind help he is offering to africa??
2007-05-30 04:15:40 · 10 answers · asked by Clean heart 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Libya - a former terrorist state that changed its story without US Army invasion -
Sure give him weapons....why not. Give them everything we got...sounds great.
2007-05-30 04:19:56 · answer #1 · answered by Peace Maker 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolute bag of shite. Blair's government, like all governments before them are terrified of the job losses at BAE that would follow if we didn't keep our place as a major arms supplier. As a result successive governments have lied, bribed, broken British and international law, and used countless loopholes to preserve our place in the arms trade.
Selling weapons to Libya is just par for the course for the British government (irrespective of party). If we can now find out who Libya intends to use these weapons on, maybe we can sell weapons to them, too.
Read Mark Thomas's excellent book on the subject.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Used-Famous-Nelson-Mandela-Underground/dp/0091909228/ref=pd_bowtega_1/203-4242635-1169541?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180539318&sr=1-1
2007-05-30 04:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all of you are forgeting that Libya is a country also and it has a right to buy arms and defend it self ,oh or is it that UK and the USA are the only countries allowed to have arms and defend themselves.even if Britain doesn't sell arms to Libya Russia will and Libya already bought arms and fighter jets from Russia for 9 billion. countries can change
2007-05-31 05:47:51 · answer #3 · answered by adam b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The news I've read said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6699447.stm
It seemed to focus more on BP going back into Libya. Trading a few air defence missiles for access to oil doesn't sound a bad deal to me though.
2007-05-30 10:52:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Co-operaration with Libya on supplying arms is totally ridiculous.Perhaps he wants this as part of his LEGACY.
The last ten years as all been about ,sucking-up to G,W.Bush ,taking the the U.K. Into a war in Iraq on a pack of lies and the total disintegration of our borders ,umpteen freebie holidays and a total disregard of theU.K.traditions ,with no thought of impact it might have on the general public .
2007-05-30 05:11:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i saw that story on BBC last night and i was all like WTF?
maybe i don't follow along close like Blair does with arms dealing and world affairs, but i fail to see any good coming out of that deal other than Blair getting rich and Libya arming up...wait...no i fail to see any good from this.
2007-05-30 04:28:12 · answer #6 · answered by Diggy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Given that I'm suprised that he did not invite Saddam Hussain to make a state visit, nothing else suprises me.
I wonder how long it will be before those very same weapons are turned on us ny Iran etc.
2007-05-30 04:44:57 · answer #7 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mr Blair knows why the decision was made but we will never be told either for security reasons or its not our business
2007-05-30 04:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Might we have a link to peruse.
2007-05-30 04:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The question is , what is he getting in return ?
2007-05-30 04:20:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋