Great Barrier Reef Bombed

Isn't that what barriers are for??

In related news, a spokesman for the reef was quoted as saying "We will retaliate!  We will not be bullied by others just because they're bigger!"
 

bit of a beatup-there was strong opposition to America setting up permanent bases here as we reposition ourselves politically as part of Asia and I suspect the press are looking for justification.
I call it a beatup because nearby dredging for the new LNG and coal terminals,agricultural fertiliser and herbicides runoff ,bleaching from global warming and the proximity of an increasingly busy shipping route together with mass tourism are far more damaging than unexploded ordinance. 
just my opinion..............
 

 
' so what's something small like the Great Barrier Reef?'
 
actually,it`s not that small.
if you consider the UK is 50,346 square miles, Texas is 266,874 sq miles and the reef is 344,400 sq miles,you could lose a hell of a lot of stuff there!

webbs hill studio
 
' so what's something small like the Great Barrier Reef?'
 
actually,it`s not that small.
if you consider the UK is 50,346 square miles, Texas is 266,874 sq miles and the reef is 344,400 sq miles,you could lose a hell of a lot of stuff there!

'Tis small when you're comparing it to Jupiter like I was though.

there was strong opposition to America setting up permanent bases here as we reposition ourselves politically as part of Asia
 
We're  everywhere. The United States (from the Dept of Defense website) has military bases in 140 countries (and growing)
 
When you consider there's only about 200 countries in the entire world this number is a bit disconcerting"
 
hi tom-not wanting to get all semantic here but there are NO permanent US military bases in Australia and from memory never have been,apart from a joint tracking station at Pine Gap.
we have just agreed to "host" marines on a 6 month rotational basis against strong public opinion.
don`t get me wrong though-I`m not anti-American it`s just that our Mandarin speaking Prime Minister is doing his best to suggest our future lies with China not the U.S.A.
(my grandfather would roll over in his grave at this prospect!)
cheers
 

craigb

webbs hill studio
..our Mandarin speaking Prime Minister is doing his best to suggest our future lies with China not the U.S.A.

Stop!  Yu going wong way!

Yu pwobably wight !

SteveStrummerUK
 
Pfft....
 
I don't need no steenkin' bombs dropped on my guitar reefs.
 

thats what any Cambodian cover band might have said

nice one craig,appreciate the humour but ,
seriously,considering the topic of this thread and how contentious an issue it is here,
for those who have forgotten:
"The United States dropped upwards of 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia, exceeding the amount it had dropped on Japan during WWII (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki) by almost a million tons. During this time, about 30 per cent of the country's population was internally displaced. 
Result
Estimates vary widely on the number of civilian casualites inflicted by the campaign; however,as many as 500,000 people died as a direct result of the bombings while perhaps hundreds of thousands more died from the effects of displacement, disease or starvation during this period.
The Khmer Rouge, previously a marginalized guerrilla group,  propagandized the bombing campaign to great effect; by the CIA's own intelligence estimates, the US bombing campaign was a key factor in the increase in popular support for the Khmer Rouge rebels. After their victory in 1975, the Khmer Rouge oversaw a period in which another one-to-two million Cambodians died from execution, hunger and forced labour.
After it became public, the bombing campaign was a subject of contention within the U.S. as opposition to the U.S. military project in Indochina intensified."
 
sorry if I have hijacked the thread but I needed to reference the op`s inference that there was a US base in Oz and that we are happy about "hosting" foreign troops on our soil and it`s all a joke....banning nuclear armed or powered warships in our waters is one thing but wargames off our coast are questionable-we are totally incapable of defending ourselves anyway but who is going to invade us-Indonesia-China?-I don`t think so-but we spend billions to arm ourselves so we can play these wargames while our farmers and indigenous population struggle.
phew-that feels better-glad I got that off my chest!