Londonrake:
Was it me who brought up MH17 or flight 655? I thought it was you
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No .... you referenced Lockerbie
..... because that suited your accusation of Iran being quite likely to have done it deliberately for political revenge.
I made no reference to Kerry and you fully backed an unsupported - subsequently quietly dropped - claim from the Russian's whilst at the same time decrying Kerry's comments on the evidence "compellingly pointing to Russia". That's hypocritical.
You did not join this forum until 29th Dec 2019 ....... so clearly the comment did not apply to one you made on this forum. Check the archives on CEF starting 17/07/2014, it will be your first response to the news of the MH17 crash ...... then you can apologise! As you are aware as a non member I do not have access to the CEF post data base or I would take great delight in rubbing your nose in it!
Have I "spouted" stories? For 3 days after the Ukrainian flight was shot down the Iranian regime lied about it. The idea that they were "gathering information" for that time is clearly a load of desperate bollocks. Despite your goody two-shoes claim, you jumped in to do the usual thing - faithfully echo the version they were putting out, that the crash was due to a technical fault. I'm sure people can - and have - seen right through that crap.
Again a selective reply! I posted that
‘..... I would wait for more information’ I made no statement as to what I thought the cause was because neither I or you or anyone else, had all the facts. Even the Ukraine's said it was mechanical failure to start with.
If you had ever worked in these countries you would realise they have a very strict pecking order. The guy who made the mistake (
presumably) would not have known it was a commercial flight ......... it took time (
how long?) for the news to get back. Then a rather cumbersome chain of command mobilises and denial would be the response until the facts all came out. It is
YOU that leaps to an immediate and conclusive accusation because you have a paranoid obsession with anything evil you can possibly throw at all the ‘
regimes’ and political characters you despise. With you there is no room for another view. So you spout the first things you read on YOUR MSM news sources with an unshakeable faith in their honesty and accuracy.