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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching "The Iron Lady," about PM Thatcher.
It's interesting to learn more about her as a person, but her policies were still an atrocity. I can remember my Dad yelling at Raygun on the TV, and he had some choice words for her as well!
Yupster
(14,308 posts)Telling her story in her dotage with flashbacks to her years in power. It was different. I liked it.
PragmaticDem
(320 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)Blair, as Prime Minister and head of the Labour Party hid what he knew from his country (that the Americans were fixing the facts to get a desired outcome). He stood up in Parliament instead and said that Britain must pay the "Blood Price" and go to war.
Thatcher on the other hand, when Argentina mounted an invasion of the Falkland Islands invaded, laid out the facts, and sought support in Parliament for defending. Also the Falkland Islands people did not want rule by Argentina.
Outcome: 74 days of conflict. Death statistics for UK and Falkland Islanders: 255 British military, 3 Falkland Islanders.
Labour Party Tony Blair's insistence on a "blood price" while he kept secret from the people the knowledge that his demand that Britain go to war in Iraq was built on a lie.
British involvement lasted six years. I don't think Iraqi civilian deaths due to British involvement has ever been calculated.