Saw Blix on the BBC programme Hardtalk with Jonathon Charles the other day. Charles made absolute mincemeat out of him, catching a very much revisionist Blix script out time and time again. But Charles just kept hauling Blix back to explain the words he used on the day as opposed to the words he now wishes he had used. Watching it it almost rekindled my faith in the BBC as an objective impartial broadcaster. Long and short of it was Bobert that:

- in November 2002 Blix thought that Saddam Hussein had WMD
- in January 2003 Blix thought that Sadam Hussein had WMD
- in February 2003 Blix thought that Saddam Hussein had WMD
- in March 2003 Blix still thought that Saddam Hussein had WMD

Negativety Bobert?? I cannot think of anything more negative, or heartless, than to condemn the peoples of both Afghanistan and Iraq to the regimes that they were living under in 2001 and 2003 respectively.

The middle-east has been more peaceful in the past 10 years than it has been in the fifty years before that, and it is getting better by the minute.

Negativety Bobert?? Who was it that was spouting on about Baghdad being a "Stalingrad"; who was it spouting about "Civil War" destroying Iraq and causing it to break up into three states. You would dearly love to believe that 1 million + people had been killed, you would dearly have loved to have seen the interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq fail. Why?? Because you could not accept in 2000 what Al Gore could - That George W. Bush won the US Presidential Election, it further infuriated you that he won his second term in 2004, despite all the crap that you and your fellow travellers tried to tar him with. By all means cling to your fantasies, your myths, your half-truths and misrepresntations if they give you comfort. But do not for one minute think that you can trot them out here and expect to get away with it.

Take a good look back at various predictions made and you will find Bobert that most of mine have been borne out while most of yours have not.

Cap'n - if the UK military would take me back, I'd go out to Afghanistan tomorrow, without a seconds hesitation. I would love to serve in the same theatre of operations as my son. Unfortunately they have age restrictions and and medical fitness requirements, while I might still be able to get fit enough, I most certainly cannot duck the age thing. I had my experience in what they refer to as conflict zones in Borneo and in Northern Ireland, which judging from your posts is a damn sight more "service" than you have ever seen, or are ever likely to see, which means that your remarks are water-off-a-ducks-back, totally meaningless, nothing but magpie chatter.