The Falklands War was 'arranged' between the Governments of Argentina and England. Arranging wars is common practice when a Country is in difficulty; patriotism is stirred up by the politicians and whipped up by the media. At the time, Argentina was going through an economic crisis which was devastating. There was also massive social unrest against the Military Junta which had murdered thousands of Argentines for political opposition to the unelected Junta.. Many of these people simply 'disappeared'. Hundreds of those who 'disappeared' were tortured and threw out of aircraft into shark infested waters. Death squads struck with impunity and terrorised working class union members and anyone opposed to the corruption which infested the Countries higher ranks. Throughout 1981, Argentina saw inflation climb to over 600%, GDP went down to 11.4%, and manufacturing output was down to 22.9%, and real wages by 19.2%. The Unions were gaining more support for a general strike every day. The solution was to install patriotism in the people by invading a disputed Island. It worked, Argentineans forgot about the crisis, they forgot, for a few short weeks about the murder of their own people by their own military, they waved the Argentinean flag and played into the hands of the Government.
I am not sure that The UK would have had any involvement "arranging" the war because if they did they would not have made the initial cockups that they did, but the latter comments would seem to hold some credence as the same is reported throughout the internet and I recall the similar discussion around the time of the war, The Junta would also have much more to gain from it Win or Lose.
I have just read the pathetic "Conspiracy theory" ramblings on the Kirby Times page I posted a link for above.
Although it serves the purpose of demonstrating the theory that the Junta needed the war, in the main the 'kirby Times' is a crock of S**t.
They post an article (on that page) in what is clearly an attempt to denigrate the work that our brave troops were doing and of course the government of the UK at the time, it must be given the rest of the shite they post and the title is after all "The Falklands War Deception" and includes the words "Anti War".
I remember looking around at some of my friends who had survived as well and were in this bowl, and I hadn't realised that I wasn't the only one crying. And there were Argentines who had been taken prisoner, and they were crying as well. I think all of us were shocked at the extent of what we'd done to each other. And then you begin to realise that you're not the rough, tough, British Paratrooper that the program of training had made you out to be. You realise your human, and you have human feelings, and that the men beside you are no different. The one thing that united all of us bundled together on that Mountain, both Brits and Argentines - was that we were all very upset about the whole f***ing mess we were in".
They seem to use the above as a way of saying "Even our troops didn't want to be there" Well feck me readers as professional and well trained soldiers are it is fair to say that nobody in their right mind would want to be there . To use a soldiers account in this way is despicable.
If I was working with a man who told me he enjoyed it and was glad he was there I would have grave concerns about his mental state.
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