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Originally Posted by jimmyjim
The "rental of military sites" makes me laugh.... did you see in last months military press releases.... we the UK had just paid the last 1.2 million dollars off what we owed the americans for "helping" us out in the 2nd world war !!!!!!!!
something not quite right..... if we are not carefull we will end up as the biggest aircraft carrier in the US navy
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The payoff was the last instalment of a loan negotiated after WWII because GB was bankrupt 5 Billion Dollers woth or 53 billion in todays money. Came close to not getting it due to congressional grievences and a stuck up civil servent who went in with a moral grounds pitch. Maybe TB is trying the same sort of pitch but along the lines of "you loan us cash and you can use us as a missile base"