Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks kill hundreds'

Oberon · 09-03-13, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

OK some of the papers have it now, Sky.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=11119144

http://www.canada.com/news/Sweden+re...607/story.html

How the heck are the poor sods who cross the border with nowt but the shirt on their backs going to make it all the way across Europe to Sweden if not by a shady man who will stuff them in the back of a lorry and suffocate them before they get there and/or sell them into prostitution when they get there?

Sammi79 · 09-03-13, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

How the heck are the poor sods who cross the border with nowt but the shirt on their backs going to make it all the way across Europe to Sweden if not by a shady man who will stuff them in the back of a lorry and suffocate them before they get there and/or sell them into prostitution when they get there?

I don't know, but they have ~50,000 already apparently.

[edit] Hey! maybe we could use our army trucks and troops to transport them! or would that be too sensible...

Oberon · 09-03-13, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

I don't know, but they have ~50,000 already apparently.

[edit] Hey! maybe we could use our army trucks and troops to transport them! or would that be too sensible...

What trucks?

Sammi79 · 09-03-13, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

What trucks?

We still have horses, right? ... right?

Oberon · 09-03-13, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

We still have horses, right? ... right?

We have more horses than we have tanks - And that's a fact.

Sammi79 · 09-03-13, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

We have more horses than we have tanks - And that's a fact.

Ok then, an emergency conscription of sheep, could carry a small person or pull a small cart...

We have plenty of sheep. (still a bit irradiated granted, but probably safer than depleted uranium rounds)

mapuc · 09-03-13, 02:22 PM

Are in need of help

As many of you may have seen. There is a picture of some officer with some paper in front of his face. This picture have even been posted in this thread

I know it's not real as T. S stated

Many of my friends have shared this picture and I really want to tell them, it is a fake. I know it is. I just can't say why. I could use T.S and Platapus words but would that be enough?

Markus

Oberon · 09-03-13, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammi79

Ok then, an emergency conscription of sheep, could carry a small person or pull a small cart...

We have plenty of sheep. (still a bit irradiated granted, but probably safer than depleted uranium rounds)

We'd have to ask the Welsh Assembly for permission to being the conscription, but I think you've got a good idea there.

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Come on now, I think it's well established that anything coming out of our talking heads in the white house is a big stinking sack of BS.

You know that, I know that...I guess we'll find out if Congress knows that over the next few days.

I think we both know the answer to that one...

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Originally Posted by eddie

I've read stroies about how young Afghans have tried to get out of Afghanistan the same way, paying someone to smuggle them out. Sometimes they are taken as far as across the Iranian border, where they get dropped off and then arrested by the Iranians. Some take months to get to Europe, and when they get there, they expect to get free housing and a job, plus any other benefits they can think of. Problem is, when they don't get what they want, they claim they are being treated unfairly, and start trouble, rioting in some places.

Don't know whether you want to help them or send them back?

Catch-22, of course, some people will state that the best thing to do is send them straight back or put them in camps or something, but immigration is as old as humanity, to them the streets of Western Europe are paved with gold, it is basically the new world for them, just as many saw America, and just like many who went to America, not all of them survive the experience. Unfortunately some nations, such as the UK, are getting to the point where immigration is becoming a social problem, and when that happens you get radicalisation of both sides and bad things occur.
I don't have the answer, but I know that if I was a young Afghan or Syrian who wanted to get away from the bloodshed and fighting, and take my family to a place where everything is supposed to be better then I wouldn't hesitate to get across Europe to the UK or France or wherever.

eddie · 09-03-13, 02:19 PM

I've read stroies about how young Afghans have tried to get out of Afghanistan the same way, paying someone to smuggle them out. Sometimes they are taken as far as across the Iranian border, where they get dropped off and then arrested by the Iranians. Some take months to get to Europe, and when they get there, they expect to get free housing and a job, plus any other benefits they can think of. Problem is, when they don't get what they want, they claim they are being treated unfairly, and start trouble, rioting in some places.

Don't know whether you want to help them or send them back?

09-03-13, 02:22 PM	#7
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,582 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Are in need of help As many of you may have seen. There is a picture of some officer with some paper in front of his face. This picture have even been posted in this thread I know it's not real as T. S stated Many of my friends have shared this picture and I really want to tell them, it is a fake. I know it is. I just can't say why. I could use T.S and Platapus words but would that be enough? Markus

09-03-13, 02:19 PM	#9
eddie Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,023 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	I've read stroies about how young Afghans have tried to get out of Afghanistan the same way, paying someone to smuggle them out. Sometimes they are taken as far as across the Iranian border, where they get dropped off and then arrested by the Iranians. Some take months to get to Europe, and when they get there, they expect to get free housing and a job, plus any other benefits they can think of. Problem is, when they don't get what they want, they claim they are being treated unfairly, and start trouble, rioting in some places. Don't know whether you want to help them or send them back?