VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Graham|DATE|1365521595|CONTENT|[blockquote]reduced Britain&#039;s military presence in the South Atlantic thus lulling Argentina into a false sense of security.[/blockquote]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU your reverence for pointing this out.  I spit feathers every time I hear Thatcher praised for &#039;winning the Falklands war&#039;. She caused it!!  Newspapers at the time were forecasting that her penny-pinching withdrawal of the one ship we had in the area would be taken as a signal by Argentina that we were no longer interested in the Falklands.  And so it proved.  She and Carrington were too stupid to see what many others could see and actually  caused a needless conflict which she is almost universally lauded as having &quot;won&quot;.|IP-ADDRESS|95.148.124.247|MODERATIONFLAG|