"Oi, get your filthy hands off my desert!"
"What 'e say?"

Brezhnev took Afghanistan.
Begin took Beirut.
Galtieri took the Union Jack.
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
Took a cruiser with all hands.
Apparently, to make him give it back


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    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan One of the wars involving Israel And the war going on at the time that Waters hated the most, the Falkland Island War

    nukethesunon December 04, 2004   Link

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