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I do like this challenging of Government policy in Court. Its good.
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Re: People power
These are arms sales to the Saudi govt. to help quell rebel forces in a civil war, am I reading that correctly??
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Re: People power
Who is?D41 wrote:So they're selling them to an ally??
Use Google, it makes life very easy. "Yemen civil war" is a good starting point.
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No kidding??Kwacky wrote:Who is?D41 wrote:So they're selling them to an ally??
Use Google, it makes life very easy. "Yemen civil war" is a good starting point.
I already tried & couldn't make head or tail of it.
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There are plenty more despotic regimes around the world we can sell arms too that aren't currently dropping bombs on civiliansStMarks wrote:Except for those reliant on the UK arms industry.?Monty wrote:Wonderful news
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Monty wrote:There are plenty more despotic regimes around the world we can sell arms too that aren't currently dropping bombs on civiliansStMarks wrote:Except for those reliant on the UK arms industry.?Monty wrote:Wonderful news
I'm sure there are always plenty of customers Monty, however surely handing any customer (let alone a very affluent & loyal one) over to the competition will only weaken a business in any marketplace.?-
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So it's fine to sell ordnance to other countries..."despotic regimes" as you call them, the problems only arise when they put said ordnance to use?Monty wrote:There are plenty more despotic regimes around the world we can sell arms too that aren't currently dropping bombs on civiliansStMarks wrote:Except for those reliant on the UK arms industry.?Monty wrote:Wonderful news
Got it.
