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1. Alfonso Bedoya
   Moderator

   Don't get me wrong... I'm not defending BP. This is a huge disaster, and BP should spend whatever it takes to put things right.

   However... the rhetoric coming from Obama and the rest of America is really starting to piss me off.

   Hypocrisy on an unbelievable scale... Americans and their companies have a disgraceful reputation when it comes to handling disasters on foreign soil.

   The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal alone, should be enough to make the Yanks very self-conscious and contrite, before wagging their avaricious fingers at anyone.

   "Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and ching' tu madre! Come out from that shit-hole of yours. I have to speak to you."

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Spike
   Member

   FFS The Yanks took backhanders from BP to let them drill with comparative ease... so sweep up ya own backyard before calling BP on this...and don't get me started on the Yank mentality when they come over here to Europe..every Yank outside the US is a disaster waiting.

   BREAKING NEWS: The Pity Train has derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up & Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get the Hell Over It.
   
   MUFC: THE RELIGION

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. Ed
   Moderator

   I blame the Glazers

   Editor & Moderator at http://www.unitedrant.co.uk

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Just1n
   Member

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   Posted 2 years ago #

5. eddieTheRed
   Member

   I've been puzzled by this accident for weeks; I just can't understand how so many failsafes, contingencies, rescue plans, etc.. all failed simultaneously to give us one of the worst manmade oilspills the world has ever seen. I also struggle to understand why the head of BP in USA, Tony Hayward seems so casual about it all - in fact, he sometimes comes across as being smug!

   Well, I think I might have figured it out; in all the hubbub about trying to cap the leaking oilwell, people have forgotten about what might have caused the accident in the first place; what's big and heavy and moves at speed underwater? Big enough to cause such catastrophic damage to a hitherto reliable 'well? Could it be a US Navy submarine? Seems far fetched but when you consider how close the huge American naval base of Keys West is to the 'well then you have to wonder!

   If it were true it would explain why Tony Hayward is being so smug about the accident and it's repercussions. If true then I suspect a deal will be done where BP takes public responsibility for the consequences in return for even greater privelege to drill in American waters - by the way, I don't have a single shred of proof for this theory but once you accept it, everything else makes sense!

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. sheesh
   Member

   Of course, BP deserve to be criticised but I think Obama has played to the audience too much to avoid looking like an idiot, in the way George Bush looked stupid over his delayed reaction to Hurricane Katrina. I think some of the outrage is designed to appeal to the public given that elections (I believe the Americans are to elect members of House and Senate) are not far off.

   Excellent point by Alf about Bhopal.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. Spike
   Member

   Eddie
   The Captain and crew were of course fall down drunk as too not miss warning sounds of a oncoming hinderunce in their path.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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