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Yes and its sickening to me an many, many other people. He should be indicted for war crimes especially since his recent admission that WMD was a good reason for going to war but f that reason hadn't wont cabinet approval he would have found something lese since "saddam had to go". So he has by his own admission taken part in a clearly defined crime against humanity. No one is allowed to use military might to remove a head of state, this is a war crime.

It'll be interesting to see what he says when he's called forward to the whitewash that is the Iraq War Enquiry tho.

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And that analogy was already shown to be false way back this morning, just because you repeat it doesn't make it valid...
Completely irrelevant, why would the actions of one country absolve another of it's war crimes?

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Why are the actions of 'our' government our problem? I did not vote for this shower.
Anyway, was the original splitting of Israel/Palestine not a UN decision in 1946? Which seemed to put all the fertile and profitable land in Jewish hands. Obviously that was going to start a war.

Defending your borders against insurgence is one thing, pushing an entire population into ghettos is quite another.

1) who is "we"
2) what do you want me to do? Go there and fend of mervaka MBT's with my shotgun and a pick handle?

You seem to have been pretty fervent in defending the IDF attacks on civilians.

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If you'd seen the Ross Kemp program on Gazza, then you would have seen what the Isrerali's have done to Gazza.

The UN envoy to Gazza was highly crtical of their tatics in the last assault, where they took out the infrastructure of Gazza, schools, hospitals, civic offices etc.

They will claim that Hamas were using these as terrorist bases, but they also took out factories and the blockade has caused at least 100,000 to become unemployed, directly or indirectly. How are you meant to survive if you have no job. Who are you going to take your anger out on?

Its a very complex situation and even the some of the Palestinian's interviewed were very critical of Hamas and they'd rather be at peace with the Isreali's. There are agendas on both sides, that can't be comprehended.

But what nearly bought me to tears was the children interviewed at a psychiatric clinic who described their mothers, fathers sisters, grandmothers being shot by the Isreali's :(

Defend yes, but this?

I'll watch the 2nd part on Sunday, to get the Isreali side of the story, but like I said it opened my eyes.:(

Re: An Open Letter to Gordon Brown
 

The United Kingdom should just keep out of other countries business. If countries want to attack each other for whatever reason then let them.
If they attack us then wipe them off the face of the earth.
Radical...yes.
Do I care...no
Why....because they do not care about us.

Ste.

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What most people are sadly unaware of is that Hamas offered israel a 10yr ceasefire and withdrew it call to destroy israel a few years ago now. They said they have to deal with the reality that is israel and try to do whats est for their people.
Israel on the other hand have time and time again done everything they can to antagonise the situation, by building walls onto land that is not theirs, by kidnapping civilians, including children, in the night at gunpoint and locking them away in secret prisons without trial and all manner of other ways to get hamas to retaliate the only way it can, with its puny unguided rockets so they can say "look they are firing rockets at us again" :roll:

Forget Ross Kemp btw, its sensationalist TV (he says not having seen it, lol) but if you want some real truths from the ground watch this. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/200...one_year_later
Its a bit long winded but if you want to hear about the reality of what israel are doing to destroy and chance of peace its well worth watching.

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why should we bother what happens over i the middle east.?

pull all the troops out and let them get on with it i say. if we never intervened then some of it would be settled out by now. they have been at it for thousands of years, who are we to try and stop it. instead we incite it.

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H'mm thats the one thing I could happily say about that prog, it certainly wasn't sensationalist, at least not to my eyes.

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for the natural gas and oil of course. Things the west dont have an abundance of.

Imagine how thw world would be if saddam had been left in place. Quite peaceful really. He was in no way a threat (not militarily anyway) to the west or any of his neighbours. The 2 previous iraq was had seen to that. yes he was a dictator but one who kept some semblance of stability in the region. Sadly, cos he wouldnt play ball with the uk and us they decided he had to go and be replaced with a puppet they could control better.

lets not forget this
http://www.marxist.com/images/storie...m-rumsfeld.jpg

At one time he was on good terms with the people who later had him hung by the neck for daring to go against them.

Well perhaps i can find it online and give it a go then.

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teeehhheeeeeee, thats funny.

do you honestly think the government/s give a rats arz about the oil and gas, after all who is it that really needs it? yup you guessed us public.

war games, thats what its all about, the money to be made selling the latest and greatest 'arms' is way more profitable then oil or gas will ever be.

not to mention all the public money the government/s can waste as aposed to spend it where it matters. ever noticed how the government has no money or very little for 'natural disasters', education and health in this country but can find billions when it comes to 'keeping peace'.