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davidc

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    I think its just an excuse to get rid of a leader the politicians never wanted, hes too likely to bring about change and stand up for the ordinary people rather than look after Westminster and the scum who inhabit it in general.

    its only the champagne socialists who call them selves blairites who want him gone. there do not want to have democracy giving back to the grass roots. I'm looking forward to see the grass roots want us to go to war

  2. this is the truth in any war be it unrestricted or limited serviceman die all servicemen know that the negative side of service is dying During my time we had politicians who had Fought in a conflict and knew that sending serviceman in to harms way meant someone child would be killed.

    Now we have politicians who think there look like a statesmen for rushing the armed forces in to the hot spots of the world and what is the most galling thing is now that we bring bodies home for burial not one government minister meets the bodie of our falling who there sent .To me that is cowardice and total disrespect

     

    Before anyone starts saying how safe our pilots will be just remember the latest pilot to die was a russian

  3. thank you to those that helped me

    especial MJG you youtube help a lot after seeing that I updated its firmware all seems to work

    hopefully tomorrow after i set it up where it will permanently sit it will still be working

     

    also i can conect my phone too

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    You will need an Ethernet cable for that.

     

    The USB port is for the antenna.

     

    (sorry if that is teaching granny to suck eggs)

    tried it but it asking for username and password

    can;t find one in the paperwork or box

    anyone help

  5. Islam is a curse on the planet, the devil himself couldn't have created a better way to ruin everyone's lives, keep them poor, unthinking, and in a state of constant war.

     

    Are they ? How do you know what bombs have hit what and where ?

    http://airwars.org/

     

    Please note friendly fire and civilian casualties are noted as claimend, but daesh are estimated ????

     

    but do note the amount of ordnance dropped if all these are intelligent ordnance just imagine the cost

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    Cruise missiles fired from ships and submarines run $1 million a piece, and those launched from B-52s cost twice that. By contrast, a laser-guided 2,000 pound bomb dropped from a radar-evading F-117 costs $26,200, while an unguided bomb from a B-1 or B-52 runs about $600.4 May 1999

    "Smart Bombs" Cost Money -- Lots Of It

    www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=11897

     

    unquote

  6. Vietnam and Syria are not comparable in any way.

     

    OP rolling thunder was a totally different type of bombing and the purpose was totally different. There is no vast area bombing going on in Syria, it is all targeted , which has enabled the forces on the ground to stop the advance of ISIS, and start pushing it back. If we sent a ground force there would still be the same bombing, air assets are a vital part of infantry assault.

     

    Whatever solution you come up with the destruction of ISIS's military assets is still necessary. Unless you want to volunteer to do it on the ground then by air it is.

    then how come these targeted bombs are missing assets and hitting Hospitals and houses full of civilians.

    and bombing with out boots on the ground does not work

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    Rolling Thunder did not beat the North Vietnamese into submission. It failed. North Korean Technology being provided by Russia and their planes using airstrips in China.

     

    We won't have ground troops on the ground in this Syrian/Iraq field of conflict. A Shia and Sunni conflict in the region. We can only give support to those that are engaged with fighting IS on the ground. We and those on the ground have different reasons for engaging. But, IS are the targets.

     

    that's the problem no one on the ground is fighting just ISIS

    the moderate rebels are fighting Assad and islamic rebel groups and then ISIS

    the islamic rebels are fighting Assad the moderate rebel groups and then ISIS

    Assad is fighting all the rebels then ISIS

    ISIS is fighting everyone

     

    Iraq

    where the elected government is fighting ISIS with Allied (including the UK ) are slowing winning .

     

     

    Under rolling thunder one of the outcomes was the vietcong learned how to produce the items of war in small workshops and how to hide troops and equipment so bombing became unproductive except in the killing of unarmed and innocent civilians

  8. Mine is working fine on Win 10

     

    Ray

    well I Plug mine in to the 12 volt circuit making sure arial was plug in to the front before powering the router up window 10 sees the router and no matter what I tried it will not connect

    on the top front of the router lights are lit on lan and wan middle light marked USB iis unlit

  9. some more food for thought

    american operation Rolling Thunder 1965 1968

    bombing only no ground troops

     

    During the many months during which Operation Rolling Thunder operated, 643,000 tons of bombs were dropped. However, nearly 900 US aircraft were lost. The financial cost of Operation Rolling Thunder was huge. It was estimated that the damage done to North Vietnam by the bombing raids was $300 million. However, the cost to the US of these raids was estimated at $900 million.

     

    we all know in gulf 1 & 2 we still had to send in ground troops, we had no plan what to do afterwards.

     

    In recent years the only real success was the invasion of Kosovo and that was because it was Nato lead under the UN with a complete plan what to do when the military won including a international police force following the front line.

     

    But our politicians still have not managed to read history there probably using there time to arrange who will play them in the film and how much the royalties will be,

  10. Dunno if it's relevant, but the expensive amazon one is also an unlocked 3G receiver, which probably needs a SIM from 3 or similar, before it can produce its own wifi field.

     

    The cheaper one makes no mention of 3G and probably only picks up Wifi.

     

    Any good?

    the one i've got does both but unable to get into it to config it wondering if the problem is windows 10

  11. This letter to David Cameron, from the Syrian community here in the UK, says it all.

     

    http://rrsoc.org/node/368

     

    Dear David Cameron,

     

    As Syrians residents in the UK we have watched the rise of ISIL with greater horror than many others in the world. That is because it is our people in Syria who are on the front lines of ISIL’s brutality. It is in the central square of our beloved city Raqqa that ISIL displays the severed heads of Syrian civilians and claims its capital.

     

    We want more than anyone to be freed of ISIL and so we welcome international commitment to rid the world of this disease. But simply bombing ISIL will not defeat them. If anything it will make them stronger.

     

    That is because the growth of ISIL is a symptom of Assad’s indiscriminate killing of civilians. There was no ISIL in 2011 when Syrians rose up peacefully against Bashar al-Assad to demand their dignity and their rights, only to have the regime use its full military might to crush them. As the violence and destruction increased, ISIL slipped across the border from Iraq, and like a parasite established itself in the rubble of Syria's barrel bombed towns.

     

    Not long after, many Syrians bravely drove out ISIL. From towns like Atareb and Saraqeb in the north and large parts of Idlib and Aleppo, Syrian rebel groups routed ISIL. Entire communities resisted their advances, sometimes even peacefully. But this progress was impossible to sustain while Bashar al-Assad's regime dropped banned barrel bombs on schools, hospitals and homes in areas resisting both his forces and ISIL. In the first four months of 2014, half a million people fled Aleppo as a result of the regime’s aerial campaign, many heading over the border into Turkey and on to Europe.

     

    If we want to drive ISIL from the land that it currently holds in Syria, we need to understand that the Assad regime is a much larger threat to people on the ground. It is responsible for more than 95% of civilian deaths in Syria since the beginning of the uprising. In the first half of 2015, the regime killed seven times more civilians than ISIL. A recent survey of refugees in Europe showed that twice as many Syrians were fleeing Assad's forces than were fleeing ISIL.

     

    In this context, selectively bombing ISIL from the air will not win the support of those on the ground who want to defeat it. It will not free them to strengthen their communities once again and resist ISIL once again.

     

    ISIL wants nothing more than to say to the communities that it occupies that the outside world does not care about them. ISIL wants to persuade Syrians that countries like the UK are turning a blind eye to the horrors of the Assad regime and are instead choosing to attack them because this is a wider clash of civilisations. Bombing ISIL while ignoring the much greater violence of the Assad regime would feed this narrative.

     

    The only way to defeat ISIL is by stopping the Assad regime’s indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, including areas controlled by moderate rebel groups. Once this happens, Syrians will be freed up to drive out ISIL themselves, as they have proved themselves capable of doing.

     

    To make this happen, the UK and other countries need to get serious about the political resolution of the conflict. The peace talks that started a few weeks ago in Vienna offer hope to build on the agreements made two years ago in Geneva for a political transition in Syria, but we need to go beyond hope. While barrel bombs continue and entire towns remain under starvation siege and hundreds of thousands of political prisoners remain in government jail, there can be no progress. There needs to be a guarantee for civilian protection from the Assad regime’s use of indiscriminate air attacks.

     

    We are urging you Prime Minister to prioritise the resolution of the conflict in Syria over the bombing of Raqqa. It is simply not possible to defeat ISIL while Assad maintains his grip on power and keeps the war burning and refugees pouring over the borders. Once the indiscriminate attacks stop you will see how.

     

    Kind regards,

     

    Dr. Mohammad Tammo, Kurds House

    Anna Simpson, Oxford for Syria

    Dr. Mohamed Najjar, Peace and Justice in Syria

    Dr. Haytham Alhamwi, Rethink Rebuild Society

    Dr. Amer Masri, Scotland4Syria

    Muzna Al-Naib, Syria Solidarity UK

    Dr. Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal, Syrian Association of Yorkshire

    Dr. Mohammad Alhadj Ali-Syrian Welsh Society.

    says it all

    but our parliament have become gutless and are scared of what USA ans France think as for russia it has shown time and again there are scared to confront them

  12. It seems the Blairites in the labour party are angry with Corburn because he believes this issue is so important. he has sent out a survey to party members asking for their views and urging them to respond by the start of next week. I believe this is so important we should have a mechanism that the british voters have a input. it will be our family members who will have to go and fight.

     

    Gone or the days when we had MP who had been to war and know the horrors of what it meant to kill and the devastation heaped upon the innocent.

     

    What horrifies me is the Gun ho MP's who cheat and liar but sit in a comfortable and warm House of parliament cut our armed services to the bone make servicemen redundant., and suddenly now need those armed service to fly in harms way knowing that the same parliament will not support them if there are serous injured

  13. Maybe but their is the pressure from allies to join in, I don't agree with do as thy neighbours but their could well be a wedge driven in deeper between fellow friendlys the longer the UK don't get involved.

    you probably right

    from the BBC

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    The French president has called on MPs to back UK air strikes in Syria, following the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month.

    President Hollande thanked the UK for its support in the wake of the attacks and said he hoped MPs would back David Cameron's case for military action.

    The PM has said there is a "compelling case" for air strikes against so-called Islamic State targets in Syria.

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    Actually, the last thing the southern states want to do is leave the union. Southern states cannot exist on their own - their entire existence relies on tax subsidies from the northern and coastal states. What the South does want to do is control the entire country and force their extreme right-wing fundamentalist agenda on everyone else. There's a reason those people are often referred to as Talibangelicals.

     

    There are a lot of people outside the South that would just as soon see the South leave the union, but that will never happen. Southern politicians feed that idea as raw meat to their illiterate masses. But those same politicians know who butters their bread, and know full well that the South could never really exist on its own.

    I was meaning as in what happened 1861 when the southern states tried to leave the union

  15. I have said this before, the only time we should join in a war in syria, is when there a completed plan to support international arab/muslim soldiers on the ground and with a complete thought out plan of reconstruction again involving the surrounding arab states.

     

    The west with all its military might in the last 100 years have achieved nothing except alienate the arab/muslim world, and have indirectly caused the present state of thing.

     

    As for a bombing campaign it will only achieved a strong Islamist state just look at operation rolling thunder,and we know who won in the end

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder

     

    And also be in now doubt whats so ever the minute we start bombing Syria we will have a paris event , and before people start saying how good or security services are it only needs terroist to be lucky once.

     

    The Prime minister is wrong

    Yes we need to do something, not jump on the bandwagon and try and proof we can bomb better than anyone else.

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