iran and syria have a vested interest in avoiding the iraq situation spilling over into civil war.

syria have been making all the right noises about coming back into civilsed society. the uk also have a relatively good relationship with iran. british diplomats in these countries ( particularly iran) have good channels of communication with their rulers and its actually one of the few things we do well.

personally i feel thats its much better talking to these people and encouraging them back into the fold, rather than bombing them.

Its almost as f*** stupid as following the americans there in the first place although there seems to be very few options available. In future the USA should be just let be to fight their own corrupt shitty little agendas......

speak for yrself. i have never owned a car. i have taken two return air flights in the last 7 years. oil is over rated.

and i think in 30 or 40 years time iran will be seen as a model democratic middle eastern state. they are a lot further down the line towards democracy than the saudis ( where most of the 9/11 crew came from) but of course we like the saudis despite their appalling human rights abuses because they are oil friendly.

i dont agree with asda flying food from the other side of the world that we dont even need if thats what yr getting at.

and i just happen to believe that the iraq invasion was more about oil than human rights.

but i could be wrong. dno have just sunk their first wells in northern iraq and reckon they are going to make serious bucks for their shareholders from it so some money may trickle down to pools.

one thing i do know is that iran is a much more democratic country and more open to change than a lot of the very dodgy countries out there we are pally with. their democatically elected government, which includes women, is trying to reduce the influence of the religous nutters that have run the country in the past. this is a slow process but one that should be applauded and recognised.

this stuff we have been pumping from the north sea and that is currently avaialable on a global scale to buy is called oil. theres no denying we need it but as it becomes more scarce are we just gonna go round invading every country that still has it, carpet bombing innocent women and children along the way.

expecting iran to meet western standards of democracy is like expecting the poorest african nations to supply electricity to every one of its villages. iran will develop a democratic goverment before most middle eastern countries. i aint saying its perfect but its a hell of a lot better than countries like sudia arabia who we are in cahoots with.

bear in mind it aint that long ago in the grand sceme of things that we were trading in slaves, or that america was lynching folk without trial, or stalin was exterminating his own people.

10 per cent of the voting population of this country support the policies of the anti semitic bnp. the fbi in america monitor what books people take out of the public libraries, and dont even get me started on guantanamo bay. after all bush and blair told us they had overwhelming proof that the iraqis had womd and when a bloke pointed out that they almost certainly didnt he winds up dead.

we can involve iran in resolving the iraq situation or we can leave bush and blair to oversee the collapse of iraq into civil war and keep on counting the lads coming home in body bags. its about time they accepted that the killing folk way of doing things has gone tits up. again.

i dont know where you get your information from? the daily mail ?

... run naked through West Park singing "I'm Merlin the happy pig"?

ive seen it. and it wasnt pleasant.

is she still baking dibbs a pie every time hes round there ?