State of the game so far:

1) Closed

2) You asked about Northern Ireland, playing with fire? Hardly, nobody will refute a single thing I have said about it above, those facts are very well known.

3) No Ciggy old son, YOU READ - What you did say on this was - "AS for the UNSC resolutions, with the exception of the controversial 1441, they were largely concerned with the 'oil for food' programme." As you have been shown they clearly were not. Now If you wish to change and qualify your initial remarks to state "the most recent and relevant were largely concerned etc" then just say that that is what you want to do.

4) What has the Washington Post article got to do with your illogical comparison between Germany and Iraq?

5) Since when has being widely condemned for remarks made equated to a threat of military action?

As to how the so-called Axis of Evil were ranked in terms of potential threat you should ask the Joint House Security Committee, they studied the problem in relation to Iraq, Iran and North Korea between 1998 and 2002.

My personal reckoning remains as before, Iran will implode without any interference from outside and North Korea poses no threat whatsoever beyond international blackmail. It has most to fear from it's immediate neighbour, China, if it ever makes any serious move with regard to nuclear weapons.