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Pope Francis wants direct contact with the crowds when he visits Brazil next week
Pope Francis will not use bullet-proof ‘Pope-mobiles’ on his visit to Brazil next week to allow him more direct contact with crowds despite the security risks, according to a Vatican release. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLove him or loathe him he'd better get his plans in action quickly.
Jul 19th, 2013 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0The daft old man is gonna get himself shot very quickly.
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Jul 19th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Precisely!
It's a silly risk, they will all love and enjoy his visit, but just like Lennon, Reagan and John Paul, it only takes one nutter with a gun.
Jul 19th, 2013 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The People's Pope”
Jul 19th, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.time.com/time/covers/europe/0,16641,20130729,00.html
If there's one thing to be said FOR him, it's that he doesn't seem too impressed by CFK, despite her fawning, grovelling, ass-licking approach. What do you think he said to her? I've found one that seems very appropriate, although I don't know whether it fits.
Jul 19th, 2013 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pope Francis to CFK: “Largarse!”
Well why not fly the last flying Vulcan over to Rio as a backdrop for his visit, just like one would have been in for his predecessor in 1982, had not the Brazilian Junta decided to send XM597 home.
Jul 19th, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 Mr Ed
Jul 19th, 2013 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That would be an excellent idea but for the fact the argies would be screaming about the Brits reminding them about the bombing of Stanley runway in 1982!
7 Mr. Chris
Jul 19th, 2013 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It reminds me all right....failure after failure.
I will not go into secular or spiritual affairs ! I find it worrying that a head of state is visiting a country which is undergoing a period of turbulence . The protests , it is now apparent , caught the authorities off side . And the country does have a good intelligence service . One only hopes that security measures will be strengthened .
Jul 20th, 2013 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Jul 20th, 2013 - 06:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0What does the 14 th of June, 1982 remind you of?
Spectacular success I suppose!
8 Marcos Alejandro
Jul 20th, 2013 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, it failed that much that the ONE hole in the runway STOPPED the cowards you call your military from EVER putting fast jets on Stanley just in case they got bombed again.
And despite the huge size of the Vulcan not one AA shell hit it: usual crap shooting by the argies, so no change there!
Suck that numb-nut.
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Jul 20th, 2013 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have always wondered that considering you say the Black Buck raid was a failure, why did you not base your fighters there instead of flying from the mainland. Your aircraft could have searched for the Sea Harriers as you would have had a much greater range. Even your aircraft attacking the fleet at San Carlos could have landed at Stanley for refuelling.
The airfield was under Argentinian control.
So, give us the benefit of your strategic wisdom.
The Rio Vulcan had done a Shrike missile attack, disabling a fire control radar and putting the search radar out for 24 hours, the genocidal Junta's janissaries did not use the search radar again. They were lucky that the Vulcan didn't mete out to BA what was planned for Leningrad at that time.
Jul 21st, 2013 - 08:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, the cowards had put their radar close to a civilian population, using human shields like Saddam Hussein had in the first Gulf War.
The Black Buck raids were a total success. It demonstrated the RAF could attack from great distances, with an inflight refuelling capability which they did not possess then and still do not possess today. If the RAF could do it thirty years ago with Vulcan Aircraft, it can still do it today with contemporary and more capable aircraft.
Jul 21st, 2013 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0They demonstrated the political will of the British to fight and strengthened the moral of the occupied islanders, who for the first time saw that we were going to fight back.
Tactically, it forced them to keep some of their Mirage aircraft at home and not committed to the battle space, to defend against attack on their airbases or elsewhere.
All in all, the results were far greater than a single bomb on the runway.
@ 14 the 1st BB raid, followed by the Sea Harriers, also precipitated the fateful Belgrano/25th May pincer attack on the Task Force, declawed by HMS Conqueror.
Jul 21st, 2013 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0The result was peace for Chile over the Beagle Channel too.
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Jul 21st, 2013 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still waiting Marcos !
After the Island was captured and the runway secured, why did you keep your most capable aircraft at home instead of on the mainland. You had 27 days before the first raid to move a fighter squadron to Stanley..
Being close to the ppl as a Priests or Pastor is indeed, neccesary because it isn´t the same talking or interacting at a distance, with the adecuate preparations I Think it can get done fine.
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