sounds interesting though repetitive and proven to be unsubstantiated….

but do you see this as being as contemptible as a certain very senior member of the present US Administration who was a quest of good old Iran bashing Saddam how many times? How much money did the good ole U.S of A. pump into Iraq during their war with Iran? Is this contemptible as well ?

Not unsubstantiated at all. The bank accounts are fact and he has chosen not to respond to the UNs questioning regarding the missing charity millions.

As regards the Iran-Iraq war, I think you’ll find the French and Russians pumped in 95% of Saddams needs. Of course this fact would prevent any US bashing, so we’ll ignore that. And if you’re not concerned about a man who wants to build nuclear weapons, who repeatedly states his aim as wiping Israel off the map, you should be.

The area around Bagdhad is a mess at the moment. Most of the country is peaceful. As far as the media is concerned, peace doesn’t make for good viewing figures. Unfortunately lots of religious extremist are taking every opportunity to grease their own palms, knowing the US will be blamed.
It’s perfectly true that the coalition planning for the end of the war was poor, but it’s not the US running around with death squads.

You seem to ignore the huge warehouses that were stocked with medical supplies, owned by Saddams sons. They prevented them from getting to the civilian population in order to drive up black markey prices.

Saddam could buy unlimited quantities of medicine for the population, he just chose not too because it suited him. In fact, he was allowed to sell millions of pounds worth of oil in order to finance it. He just used the money to line the palms of certain corrupt British Politicians.

Back to topic, bring the Fury home.

“female vintage fighter pilot”

I take it you mean the aircraft and not the ladies 😀

First off can i say i watched the programme and i have read all of this thread and i can say the thread has to be the most enjoyable of the two , its been hilarious!!.
I learnt something new though I didnt know of the friendly fire angle to the story before
Secondly a point which i may of missed, what is the significance of Schlagers 109 still having its tail? if he did collide with DB are we to assume it was tail to tail [which to my untrained mind seems a bit farfetched]
I am sure someone will have an answer.
Can i just say again what a joy it has been to read this thread with lots of people throwing the dummy out of the pram for various reasons!

The point was Casson reported shooting an aircraft down by blowing its tail off. The only german aircraft shot down on the day still had its tail!

I’m glad you posted that pic. Thought I was seeing things when I watched the programme!! :rolleyes:

This time a few really old Iraqi planes.

That vampire (thread 64) ‘333’ is now at Barton. I spent many hours helping restore the pod. We had a devil of a time finding a top hatch for the old framework canopy and ended up swapping a complete Vulcan instrument panel for it.

(Sorry, don’t know how to copy the image)