My friend sent me this photograph, within the last couple of weeks. She was riding on a bus, quite early in the morning, passing the military base of RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Although it is RAF, it’s given over to the US air force.
That mighty aeroplane was see, she told me, is a B1 bomber. See how the bomb bay doors are open? It’s about to be loaded with munitions and flown to Iran.
Publicly, the UK is allowing the US to use bases in the UK for defensive strikes. I don’t blame you if, this far in, you’d ask just how many strikes can possibly be deemed defensive.
In reality, the base is being used daily for these missions. People who live near Fairford know this, see this, hear this even if our media is happy to accept government spin.
Please, take a view either in support or against these strikes on Iran, but don’t bury your head in the sand. Don’t fall for the line that the UK is minimally involved. We’re in it up to our necks.
Incidentally, how peaceful do you think Gaza is, now that the media has stopped reporting?
Mister Bump 
I was just last weekend discussing with friends from France how powerful the media are or can be in shaping public opinion.
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Yes it is difficult to form an opinion that we see objective news. I think the best way to get anything vaguely objective is to watch two opposing channels and decide that the truth must be halfway in between. But who has time for that?
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Aggression against countries who haven’t attacked any country is not my idea of defense.
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No. I think Europe, as a whole, has taken a good approach. Iran is a country we fear. We know they want a nuclear bomb and are afraid they want to use it on us. And Europe seems to want to manage that process. It was naive to think they could be bombed into submission, and downright dishonest to be caught halfway between the two.
We’re at a stage now where we should just not have US bases in our country. And accept that we must rely on ourselves for defence.
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If Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, they would have one by now. It’s against their religious beliefs to produce weapons of mass destruction. And having said that, both Pakistan and India have nuclear weapons and no one is attacking us or telling us to hand over our enriched uranium to America.
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You would not believe, since 1979, Iran is the big, bad wolf over here.
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I will believe it. Because the western media has maligned it and Islam, Muslims too.
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Yes I think that’s true. We are taught to fear Muslims in the same way as we were once taught to fear Russians. Not forgetting the Chinese, for exactly the safe reason. And we need to take a step back and ask “why are we being told to fear them?”.
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Exactly! 👍🏼
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All I know is that I am constantly lied to by the media, I don’t know what is really going on, none of us do. 😔
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I think you’re right.
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