[Angus]

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

Your idea of 'valid' no doubt!

I am not particularly interested in making any justifications/arguments - particularly when addressed to someone who is very pompous in her opinions and, it seems, has no intention of having rational 'debates' with anyone! Your posts are no longer debating anything - just 'shouting' your views!

I have always been totally against the war - and have a lot of contempt for both Bush and Blair for their self-serving decision to sent our troops to Iraq - but I have absolutely no doubt that Cameron would have done exactly the same! The Tories made their support of the war very clear at the time! You just conveniently ignore that!

NO you choose to conveniently ignore the FACT that Blair LIED about the WMD to the other parties, withheld vital information which proved there were NO WMD, and went on to the deceive the nation in order to get agreement to pursue the illegal war and cosy up to the Americans who had their own agenda where the "liberation of Iraq" was a convenient and worthy smokescreen for the "liberation of the oilfields". Funny how this same Labour Government sits quietly by while other tyrants every bit as evil and corrupt as Saddam Hussein can commit genocide in their countries, but then of course they have nothing in the way of natural resources that anyone wants.

I don't give a hoot whether I come across as hectoring, pompous, irritating or whatever - I am not forcing you to read my threads/posts, anymore than I am forced to read anyone else's. If I find something sufficiently of interest to respond to I will, and it's just too bad if my ability to express myself in words of more than one syllable rubs some people up the wrong way. If I provoke reaction, that's the nature of debate. I have had plenty of rational debates with several FMS who actually do know what they are talking about, and have some interesting and often diametrically opposed opinions.

I find a lot of YOUR posts on different threads extremely patronising, although often veiled in fake chumminess to sweeten the implied criticism, so Pot/Kettle springs to mind. So here's a thought, if you find my threads and posts so utterly, mind numbingly tedious/pompous/ranting/repetitive/irritating/pointless etc....... (if I've missed any out fill in the blanks), why not just give them a miss? I'll survive without your erudite and unwarranted attempts at censure, and you'll have a happier day all round.