And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Westland Wapiti Mark IIA, J9409, of No. 30 Squadron RAF in flight over the city of Mosul, Iraq, 11th May 1932.
That minaret in the background is the famous one that Daesh just blew to smithereens.
What a shame the carnage they've done to themselves and others.
ReplyDeleteThe British made all of the mistakes. We simply repeated them.
ReplyDeleteThe Brit's later used those same aircraft to gas the Iraqis. Mustard gas, Phosgene, and Churchill planned it. ---Ray
ReplyDeleteGerm warfare would have worked better, and there was a time that the Brits were a bit tougher on third world types than they are now.
DeleteMy point exactly---Ray
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