Peter, get real!!!!! Yes they were armed by the US during the Iran conflict making them a serious threat when they turned against us due to the updated weaponary they posess! Your ridiculous suggestion claiming that I believe them to be invading Essex or be a direct threat to the UK is exactly that, ridiculous. You know perfectly well that I mean them to be an indirect threat! Using such weapons against Israel is a serious threat; Israeli retaliation could have shattered the fragile alliance and caused other Arab states to begin hostilities resulting in an escalated conflict. Furthermore if you believe that there is no connection between Al-Quida and Iraq then it's you who needs to do your research. Having researched terrorism in great depth for my degree it is clear that there were strong links between the Iraqi security services and Al-Qaida. Although I suppose such information is just more propoganda fed to us by the Americans as part of the great neo- conservative conspiracy you continually talk of! Don't get me wrong I'm not a huge fan of the Republicans but you almost seem to suggest that they devised 9/11 as a way in which to 'influence' public opinion in favour of the war. We are not in the 1940's anymore Peter and the methods of warfare and the threats posed to our country are different; it isn't the Nazi army threatening our borders from across the channel;or the KGB and their many faceless spies, it's the crazed guy in a van full of C4 revving his engine outside the House of Commons. In relation to PNAC I will certainly take a look at the their websites and report back my opinion of it! In relation to Zimbabwe, don't patronise me! I don't care if the inhabitants of the land were pink with a hint of yellow; if you are justifying the clearances merely because it was white land owners who owned it then that is dispicable and I stand by my original comment that the UN and NATO need to look at intervention so as to solve the problem.

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