"only idiots like you believe everything that you read.

Some of us read, digest, consider, read other authors, digest, consider and then come to a reasoned conclusion based on ALL the evidence we have digested, not just the evidence that suits our preconceptions.

You have shown time and time again you are incapable of such reasoned analysis."

Do we believe everything that we read? I don't believe much of what A.J.P. Taylor wrote about the First World War. I certainly do not believe or agree with the conclusions drawn by many of the 1929/1969 "revisionists" (Especially the likes of Alan Clark who like Jom just "Made Up Shit") Why? Because others followed who studied and researched the period armed with far better knowledge and new and far better information from a far greater, varied and wider range of sources - and their conclusions were vastly different from the idiotic likes of "Donkeys", "Blackadder Goes Forth" and "Oh What A Lovely War" (I know the latter was dear to the heart of someone once married to Ewan MacColl - which means that Jom has swallowed all that shit ""hook-line-and-sinker). Would those be the sources that some of you (For some read "The Musktwats", Raggytush, The Rotund Balding Gnome and Steve Shaw) "read, digest, consider, read other authors, digest, consider and then come" up with a load of complete and utter bollocks that doesn't even withstand the most cursory challenge. All in all it seems a bit strange because to date we have:

1: Dave the rotund gnome
2: Ragged Arse
3: Steve Shaw

All professing that they all know very little about the First World War, yet here we have Ragged Arse stating that he believes that they have "read, digest, consider, read other authors, digest, consider and then come to a reasoned conclusion based on ALL the evidence we have digested" Well I would have said having considered and digested that information that over the course of the last 18 odd months we've been discussing this subject that by know if indeed you had done as you have stated you have done, you would ,or should by now know a great deal about the subject - and yet you don't, in fact you are as clueless today as you were when all this started as an attempt to bully and drive Keith A from this forum - an attempt that I am pleased to say has failed spectacularly.

As for the bit about just believing the evidence that suits your preconceptions - that is precisely what you have done throughout. Do you actually want me to detail the stuff that you have claimed as being true yet cannot provide a single shred of evidence to back up your statements. Not once have you been able to challenge a single thing stated by either myself, Keith A, Lighter, GUEST# and others. All you have succeeded in doing is to make yourselves out to be complete and utter fools.