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Mujica says presence of Prince William in Malvinas is not a ‘nice’ gesture
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that the presence of Prince William, heir to the British Crown, in the Malvinas Islands is a gesture “not at all nice” and called for the dispute with Argentina not to become military because it’s no good for anybody, least for the region. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesMujica is Malvinas Islands not Martin Garcia stay calm.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0pirates are cool
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is a difference between supporting Argentina and following whatever nonsense they wish to spout slavishly and this falls into the latter category. This is a SEARCH AND RESCUE HELICOPTER PILOT, he gets no special priveliges being a prince and HAS TO DO THE SAME DUTIES AS EVERYONE ELSE.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0All this does is show Mujica is Kirchner's bitch, he needs to grow a spine. Muppet.
Cameron responds, “Grow a spine and get some kahunas”
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I personally don't mind Uruguayans, I just wish they would man-up a bit.
l don't blame the Uruguayans, they've got a disapproving bully glaring at them.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0I truely feel sorry for Uruguayan's having to endure the leadership of a man that is clearly at argentinas beck and call. CFK most have phoned him the night before to tell him to make a public statement about Prince william being in the falklands not being a nice gesture. Funny things is i fail to see what it has to do with Uruguay in the first place, or how if any effect prince william being in the falklands has on argentina let alone Uruguay, other than helping to save the lives of fishermen from argentine and uruguayan fishing boats if they ever came into danger.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0The guy is CFK's Lapdog that comes crawling to CFK's every whim, with his tongue out ready to lick her shoes clean for her. Pathetic lol.
Kircho: “Jump, right now”
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mujica: “How high?”
Justin and others- I suspect the truth is simple- this little weed is owed a bit of river dredging by Argentina and its overdue - so a little bit of Kirschener foot licking is needed!
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is so daft it's hilarious. Prince William on a SAR deployment is not provocative. Argentina simply chooses to claim they are provoked by it for political purposes. Why Mujica has involved himself is anyone's guess.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wouldn't it be convienient if some Argentine ship needs his services - especially if they were on one of their “intrude in Falklands waters” missions at the time. Maybe one of our HK subs could nudge a boat in that direction??
Uruguay needs to get on the side of the winners (Brits) and leave the losers behind (Argies). Uruguay can cash in big time by partnering up with the Brits and offering its ports etc for the 4.6 Billion barrels of oil that will start flowing soon. The Argies will standby and see all the oil that could have saved them (for a few years anyway) flow up the Rio de Plata to Montevideo :)
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seriously, he's got so little spine he's all hunched over. Someone should prop him upright, or sellotape him to something.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor chap.
No no no you realise he's the prince of pirates and in his big yellow chopper (ooo er mrsss)
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He will be marauding around the soth Atlantic despoiling argentine virgins and stealing south Americans precious bodily fluids.
Flee the coast the pirates are coming.
Can someone remind me of the point in time when the location of an RAF pilot (or co-pilot) and member of the British Royal Family somewhere in British territory became the business of Uruguay? Or any other tuppeny ha'penny country?
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Edward VIII was governor of the Bahamas which is a steel-pan country. Other than that, no.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uruguay, Y U NO Balls?
As much as I like Uruguay their leader is beginning to look a bit old and tired. Time to get somebody else.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Justin, I've finally found someone with a good head on his shoulders when it comes to describing Jose Mujica's shortcomings. Started when he lifted the veto on Nestor Kirchner's candidacy to Mercosur's pro-tempore presidency. It was followed by accepting the Kirchner's trade barriers. How did he answered? By going two or three times to see Kirchner and get played like a fool for that power-hungry woman. Then, he joins the countries that promised to blockade the FALKLAND ISLANDS FISHING SHIPS! Where I come from we call his acftions LICKING SOMEONES' BOOTS! And, by the way, I don't believe Argentina has any right -under international law- to economically blockade the FALKLAND ISLANDS.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Finally, although a US citizen, I was born in Uruguay.
From having seen the economic blockade on Naboo, Jaja binks raises their hopes to defeat the droid army, but ultimately it all leads to Senator Palpatine being a Sith and creating the galactic empire.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not trying to draw attention to a certain president looking like the emperor or the fact Darth Vader realises it was all peronist ball-juice and chucks him down an energy conduit at the end either.
First off, I want to correct one of my lines: I meant to say by that power hungry President,not for. Of course, I should have added money-hungry to that description. The minute she learned that the Brits found oil in the waters near the FALKLAND ISLANDS, she stepped up her plan to muster world support for her so called “mission” and... Timmerman fell flat on his face! Then President Obama sided with the Brits. And it keeps going on and on and on! She's trying to be remembered as the woman who ended up being more poular than Eva Peron. Good luck!
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mujica the Mancarrón....he should just keep his mouth shut and then when it all goes quiet in a few weeks,start making serious money with the Falklands, as they have done for over a hundred years.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What on earth does ti have to do with either Argentina or Uruguay who the UK sends to serve military service on their own territories? The answer is nothing.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We can send who we want and this whole “being offended at Prince william” thing is frankly cringeworthy.
As a Uruguayan citizen, I apologise for our president's statement. Such nonsensical utterances distressingly frequent. Please remember he never finished school and he's had a difficult life. I am also ashamed of my president's toadying up to Argentine demands. If anyone knows what Argentine bullying is, it's Uruguay, and bullies do not respect appeasement. I hope the Falklands eventually become independent under British protection, and I only wish Uruguay enjoyed British protection too.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There's no point being rude to our Uruguayan friends. While Mujica should grow a pair he is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 I cannot speak for the British government (although I can ask my MP if you want) but just as a British citizen. A little look at the history books will tell you that Britain played an important part in Uruguay becoming an independent country. If you want British protection, I suggest you ask for it. Perhaps you could offer some Sovereign Base areas and naval facilities. And distance yourself from some belligerent people. Your choice, but you can't have something you don't ask for!
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 I know that kind of trolling. You must be laughing at those who pay attention to you as if you were talking seriously. You are in several forums doing the same, trolling.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 07:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@22......LOL...Mujica, grow a pair.....his name in Argentinian slang is ......wait for it ...............woman
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am a Brit living in Urguay (pop 4.5M) with the awful Argentina (pop 45M) next door.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please tell me Brits, apart from keeping his mouth shut over this, what should Mujica do?
It is OK for you sitting in the UK, many thousands of miles away, pontificating about another country who tries very hard to do the best for her people of all races and cultures.
Mujica started off his presidency very well, but as a resident here (with a cedula), I am loath to second guess the strain this man is under dealing with these terrible, two faced wannabee gangsters over the Plate.
As a Uruguayo, 21 ynsere has every right to post what he did.
I believe that when a country opens their hearts to my wife and I, which Uruguay has, I am most certainly NOT going to stand by and listen to my British 'colleagues' bad mouthing it when they really are not close enough to the situation on the ground to judge.
Pepe Mujica is right.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”This Falklands sortie is just petty British William-waving“
”Britain's military is depleted by cuts – so childish insults and occasional royal dispatches will have to suffice as foreign policy”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/10/falklands-fuss-petty-british-william-waving?intcmp=239
@26 I understand the sentiment. However, the Argentinians are just bullying the Uruguans, not even dredging the river. No point giving in to the bullies.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@27 It's the comment is free section. We read that part for people's comments, but it's not actually an article in the paper. Do you know the difference?
Mujica started off his presidency very well, but as a resident here (with a cedula), I am loath to second guess the strain this man is under dealing with these terrible, two faced wannabee gangsters over the Plate.
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure cris..I am lived in several countries..and believe me...Many british,German,Dutch,Hungarians,Spanish,etc loves the Argentinians....
bully? Did Argentina harased the brits,after they signed a treaty of commerce and frienship with Argentina,and in the most despicable piracy act,ocuppied MAlvinas and kicked out our people??
Just give a me a break.......cris=PELOTUDO
@21 ynsere,
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For my part, you would only have to ask to be part of the British Commonwealth.
l'm sure it could be arranged. Look at Moçambique.
lmagine the screaming that would come from BsAs!
@30 I get bored of talking to people from Argentina they make me tired. It's like someone's filled them full of things that are patently wrong, and they keep regurgitating them. Are you sure you cannot just agree to let the LAN flight avoid stopping in argentina altogether?
Feb 23rd, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 ynsere, respect to you for your comment.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway this has been blown out of all proportion. Like a leader not meeting the Dalai Lama to appease the Chinese. Doesn't mean anything just keeps the peace.
Don't know anything about Mujica apart from the fact it looks like he ate all the pies, but think what he said was acceptable in the circumstances.
It would be better if this “prince” once in your life begins to work of something without doing stupid things, traveling around the world. It´s very easy and very nice to travel around the world spending a lot of money of others. Someone knows how much money it was spent to do, this stupid travel, to the Malvinas Islands? I think that it is very expensive and a lot of fuel is needed to move this huge war vessel from uk to the Islands to do this stupid things!. I´m very lucky because I´m not a uk taxpayer. It is very nice to be in the place of this “pince” who has a lot of privileges to obtain what he wants without a serious work and without making any effort. Please don´t lie anymore, all the world knows that this ridiculous “prince” it´s only a privileged pirate who is traveling around the stolen territories by your country and he is only doing stupid things using a war vessel. Nobody in South America believe in this pirate “prince” and obviously nobody neither believe in his brother harry who is more pathetic than william. Please UK don´t lie anymore !
Feb 24th, 2012 - 03:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0#33 You really are a knob-end aren't you.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 04:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0This 'prince' is in Falklands as part of a normal routine posting at a base build to defend civilised people from you guys.
Get sick of you guys saying don't lie when that is all we get from Argentina. You defended Galtieri and then later claimed he lied to you and you didn't know, you defend all the other lies up to the collapse of 2002 and then later claim you didn't know and were lied to. Now you have a president who is friends with Syria, Chavez, North Korea, Iran - all with shocking human rights records. She is leading Argentina to economic destruction and covering up the hyper inflation. Yet in a year or so you will say “The president lied to us but we didn't know”
Get a life or do the decent thing and escape to an english speaking country.
I get bored of talking to people from Argentina they make me tired. It's like someone's filled them full of things that are patently wrong, and they keep regurgitating them. Are you sure you cannot just agree to let the LAN flight avoid stopping in argentina altogether?
Feb 24th, 2012 - 04:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0No body gives a damn about you yoghurt!
#33 I don´t defend the government of Argentina. I don´t defend its political and economical decisions. I don´t agree with a lot of political and economical decisions of CFK. However the claim about Malvinas doesn´t depend of the political party who is governing Argentina. Please don´t mix everything in the discussion. All South America Knows that this Islands are stolen and everybody in South America and in a lot of countries around the world knows about the lies told by uk, including its ridiculous “prince” who was doing stupid things in the territories stolen by uk.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 04:44 am - Link - Report abuse 036 All of South America knows and a lot of the countries of the world know? Really is that why you are so successful at the UN?
Feb 24th, 2012 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your insults about the 'ridiculous prince' as you keep saying show what a childish, disrespectful idiot you are. If you want to be taken seriously stop acting like a 5 year old and stop the name calling. Its you that looks ridiculous with these idiotic insults.
To be fair, we should all be supportive of Mujica, there's only so long that you can eat toads with the Argfags and their ridiculous psychologies before it starts impacting on your stature.
Feb 24th, 2012 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0He's done pretty well to last this long.
Jose Mujica looks like an older version of Sean Penn! Are they related?
Feb 24th, 2012 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0@36johnfarrel2050,
Feb 24th, 2012 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really are a stupid little man, aren't you?
So its “All South America” knows now, is it?
What happened to “All the World”?
What are these “stupid things” that the Prince is doing?
Didn't he wave to you this morning?
And OUR land is not stolen, but yours is. Thief.
@26 I'm going to give you a very simple answer. Have you forgotten BRITISH history? Remember the Battle of Crecy? The English outnumbered 38,000 to 16,000. What happened? When the Spanish sent the Armada to transport troops for an invasion of England, what did England do? Did it bumble about muttering that the Spanish force of 151 ships and 55,000 men was too big to resist? At the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson and Collingwood had 33 vessels to oppose 41 in the Franco-Spanish fleet. Who won that? To put it another way, you have to stand up for yourself. Would it be worth Uruguay remembering its national motto? Or Britain's role in it becoming independent of Argentina and Brazil?
Feb 24th, 2012 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@27 Mujica is senile!
@29 Did Argfags set up bases on British territory? See whether you can understand a few things. After buying a French settlement, Spain tried to push Britain off the Islands. Didn't work. Because Britain was prepared to go for a war that Spain knew it couldn't win. South Americans may think they can “inherit” territory. The rest of the world says you can't. Rebel Spanish colonists got a “treaty” for one reason. Britain's main aim is trade. The rebel colonists had NO right to set foot on British territory and certainly no basis on which to claim that territory as theirs. And only the foreign garrison of the rebel colonists was told to leave. What is it about you RETARDS that you cannot accept documented HISTORY?
@33 Please identify the link between Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (aka Flt Lt William Wales) and HMS Dauntless. How did he manage to get to the Falkland Islands before the destroyer?
@36 Congratulations. Your stupidity and depravity are now about equal. Now here's a suggestion. If you cannot manage to imbue any of your comments with education, honesty, intelligence, reason and truth, you would be best advised to say nothing EVER.
29 Malvinero1
Feb 24th, 2012 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not an asshole.
41 Conqueror
@26 “I'm going to give you a very simple answer. Have you forgotten BRITISH history?”
No I have not, nor have I forgotten my manners, especially to my new country.
Just incase you have not twigged it yet: 45M - 4.5M is 10:1
38K - 16K is only 2:1 41 - 33 is only 5:4 (near enough to evens) GET IT NOW?
John Farrel, are you by any chance related to Perón's mentor?
Feb 24th, 2012 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyboy on here want to talk about this seriously?
Feb 25th, 2012 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@44 reality check,
Feb 25th, 2012 - 06:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whats to talk about?
Prince William is RAF personel.
He has been posted to the Falkland lslands as have hundreds of other people.
1) He's OUR Prince(good looking too, l might add!).
2) lts OUR Airforce.
3) They are OUR lslands.
What business is it of Argentina's?
We will do what we like on OUR lslands & Argentina can BUTT OUT.
l'm glad its winding the Argentines up! But its all in their heads.
Would they make the same noise if Fred Bloggs was posted here? ldiots.
33 johnfarrel2050
Feb 26th, 2012 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't care less what you believe.
This 'prince' may well be king one day, but whilst he's here, he's just Flt Lt Wales doing his job. He eats the same crappy MPA food and sleeps in the same crappy kind of room and does the same work as anyone else.
Why don't you just pipe down? You're just making yourself look like more of an idiot than ever.
So what kind of serious work do you do? I mean if being a SAR pilot is not serious, then what is?
@46 We've been around these houses and we all confirmed that no one thinks Argfags know what a Search and Rescue pilot is. They don't seem to have any emergency services of note, and apparently the idea of someone trying to rescue you at sea is just too far beyond them for words.
Feb 26th, 2012 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Better just pat Argentinians on the head and tell them to dribble less on their pureed food.
“Mujica is Kirchner's bitch, he needs to grow a spine. ”
Feb 26th, 2012 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The guy is CFK's Lapdog that comes crawling to CFK's every whim, with his tongue out ready to lick her shoes clean for her.”
“Kircho: “Jump, right now”
Mujica: “How high?””
“so a little bit of Kirschener foot licking is needed!”
“get played like a fool for that power-hungry woman...LICKING SOMEONES' BOOTS!”
Mujica is no bootlicker, he was a guerilla during Uruguy's dictatorship and spent 14 years in prison, mostly in solitary, including a year at the bottom of a well. If he sees Cristina as a leader worthy of respect I'd rather trust his judgement than yours. Btw the way you phrase all the comments above just shows how terrified you are of a strong, independent yet resplendently beautiful woman, you'd much rather your enemy looked (and acted!) like Saddam Hussein or Mugabe wouldn't you?!
#17 Cristina is not Palpatine, she's Padme =) Maybe Natalie Portman could play her in the biopic one day; would be better than the Iron lady =)
#39 Yes he does he still cuts quite a dash for his age doesn't he? =)
48
Feb 27th, 2012 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Natalie Portman???????
Are you having a giraffe.
Listen if Kirchner looked anything like Natalie Portman even I might vote for her.
Whoopie Goldburg would be a closer match.
No offence Whoopie - loved you in Ghost.
@48 LOL @ Natalie Portman.
Feb 27th, 2012 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 048 British_Kirchnerist - Whilst I respect Mujica for his honesty and sincerity, it must not be forgotten that as a guerilla he attacked a legal, democratic and completely constitutional government. He did nothing at all to defend democracy before the dictatorship or during the dictatorship,which only became possible as a result of the attack of Mujica's group, the Tupamaros, on the legal government. Clearly there is no excuse for even such treason to be punished in the way it was in the dictatorship's dungeons, but it happened to thousands, guilty and innocent, in the 1970s and early 80s. Many died under torture. Whilst Mujica has clearly changed, he is no Mandela. At this time, practically all opposition leaders in Uruguay as well as many members of Mujica's own ruling party and business leaders are clamouring for him to face up to the Argentine government's bullying. The previous president, Dr. Vázquez, faced up to them fearlessly, but the one before, Jorge Batlle, actually whimpered on Argentine TV upon apoligising for saying that all Argentine politicians are a “band of thugs”.
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