Originally Posted by Trollheart

Come on, you seriously think she gave a **** about a few thousand people she had never met but happened to be British in name? If she hadn't needed a boost to her popularity after her approval rating fell to nearly 20% in 1980 she wouldn't have thought twice about the Falklands. It was nothing more than a big propaganda coup for her government and for her personally. I can guarantee you, if they had started having the kind of fatalities and casualties that the Iraq war brought about the UK would have wanted her to get out of there as fast as possible. It's only because it was seen as a lightning, decisive victory war that she got away with it. She was hated by miners and lower-class people, having the unmitigated gall to compare the miners' struggle for fair treatment to the Falklands War, and she tacitly supported apartheid while ruthlessly trying to crush Ireland like some Plantagenet. She privatised the hell of of the UK and put more people out of work than I think any postwar leader. And let's not forget the Poll Tax!

Oh yeah: great leader.