Argies looking to take Falklands...

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Dauphin
To explain who Eddie Izzard is.

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Oerdin


You are wrong. The British have a much better claim on the islands due to 1) everyone on the islands (the people who should determine the fate of the islands) want the islands to remain British 2) Possession is 9/10ths of the law and the British have had the islands for 174 years.

Get over it.

I am not argentine, I am bolivian (which doesnt make it better, since we still claim a corridor to the pacific ocean thru Chile)

But why dont you read your previous post?

The Argentines care for no good reason and in fact are just taught in school that it is part of Argentina. The reality is a Spanish ship stopping in the 1700's and then not coming back doesn't make much of a claim on the islands when another country actually colonized it.

I only corrected that,
Britain acknowledged the islands belonged to Spain, and the islands were colonized by Argentina, the population was expelled when the brits conquered the islands, the islands were once part of Argentina, for real, de facto, with a population there and ruled from Buenos Aires.

I actually agree with you about the people living there now wanting to remain english is more important than the argentine claims.

[Dauphin]

I thought the Argies were kicked out a couple of times by the Yanks of all people.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by joncha


Hawaii's had its current flag since 1816, sir.

Naw, Cook gave them that flag but that doesn't mean the Hawaiian natives liked it. Still, the Union Jack looks nice on that flag. It's actually the only American state to have a Union Jack on it's state flag.

[joncha]

Wrong as usual, Oerdin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_flag

[Dinner]

How's that?

[joncha]

They killed Cook in 1779, for one.

[Cort Haus]

Plastic Scotchers getting wound up

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I thought the Argies were kicked out a couple of times by the Yanks of all people.

If I recall correctly, the argies had detained some whale hunting ships of the USA found in their waters, a yank warship traveling around the world found the american whale ships there, set them free and destroyed the settlement (which was only a few dozens people)
Later the islands were occupied again by Argentina, but it lasted only a few months since the british invaded soon after

[DRoseDARs]

Which returns us to the argument of who settled first, which would be the Argentinians if what you say is true, validating their claim over the British. However, if the current inhabitants don't want to be Argentinians and view themselves as British, the UK seems to have the more valid claim.

[Barnabas]

I agree

[DRoseDARs]

I say give the islands to Bolivia. I'm sure they'd appreciate having an oceanic shoreline again.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Argentina

If the article is to be believed, the islanders don't wish to be part of Argentina. That in and of itself is enough to reject the Argentine claim.

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