Tony Blair and The War

Well, needless to say that I dont have a cat in hells chance of having anything published on the BBC Have Your Say forum on this one.

Mr Blair is being "interviewed" at the Chilcot Inquiry as anyone knows. The BBC are taking the step of a live feed on their website and good on them.

However, dont be fooled (like the rest of the public) that this will actually achieve anything. Take my word for it that Wars are planned long before Joe Public has anything to do with it. The problem with this one is that Blair hung his hat on the WMD and 9/11 thing, both of which have been proven to be incorrect. There were no WMD's and the links between 9/11 and Iraq are tenuous to say the least.

Its his conviction that irks me; "I felt it was the right thing to do", now, the public like to have things done in their interest and not one persons interest, even if he is the PM. Now tell me, if this conviction was used to remove Saddam and have a regime change, where was this conviction when say Papa Doc was running things in Haiti and Mugabe in Zimbabwe ?

He is a Liar, he is a politician, lying is what they do best. For whoever's (and there many) vested interests this war was waged in believe me Mr B will not be held accountable.

Now, if George Bush was in front of Chilcot that would be worth watching.
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Cold

Despite being in my autumnal years I can still cut it on the slopes. I have been in the alps again with Baxter. We hired a small villa in a remote French town with a couple of filly's, a crate of wine and a small collection of jazz.

It has to be said it was a tad chilly but I can ski with the best of them and can even give these young snowboarders a run for their money, what with their baggy clothes and urban and weed induced attitudes.

We spent a damn fine week and ignored the goings on in the world. I have now returned to infernal traffic problems, a leaking boiler and a tabloid frenzy.

We are soon running into an election and I always feel irritable around this time of the year.

Still, we will be out of the recession tomorrow and we can focus on the better things in life.

Chin up.
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Have Your Say becomes the voice of the far right

Lets face it, it was bound to happen sooner or later. once everyone has returned to the daily grind of life and the snow retreats to whence it came then people start attacking immigration and scarily, Islam, as a source for all their woes.

The Govt has outlawed Islam4UK, what that actually means is left unclear, but anyway, their march is banned. Oh yes everyone cries, they shouldn't be here, they are stealing our jobs, children, pets, our tax money, welfare, selling crack infested Pitt bulls to pedophiles.

I had always thought that this knee jerk reaction to the pointlessness people feel in their lives was the bastion of the tabloids. Clearly not, it has now entered the vestibules of The BBC HYS.

And of course reasoned argument will never be seen, it will be one headline after another with little or no substantiation.

England is a racist country. Or rather England has a racist and sinister underbelly.

And to think i have seen duty in the middle and far east, for the likes of this diatribe;

Absolutely right to ban this lot. Look, freedom is not free, and there are limits even to freedom of speech. When you have a bunch of benefit-scrounging, British-hating wasters screaming for death to "the West" (although they seem happy to live here and take money other people worked for) and all the freedoms that generations of Britons have fought for - that is beyond the pail. These people are traitors and should be dealt with by the courts as such.

Peter P, Barnsley, United Kingdom

Im sorry Peter, but its time you spend some time in the library reading about the following;

1 - Freedom
2 - Welfare
3 - Taxation
4 - War
5 - Islam
6 - People

Until then, and only then, comment on what you now clearly know bugger all about.

I would however like to thank Val for restoring my faith in human nature, but thats Devon for you, very relaxing;

What a lot of little englanders! No organisation should be banned. Tha leads to the slippery slope to ward book burning and censorship. All major religions are peaceful, if you go back to original concepts. There are Christian extremist who preach doom and disaster as well as muslim extremists but most people of all faiths and none are able to distinguish between people and concepts. Most people want to live peacfully together.

Val, Devon
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2010 and snow

2010 was a damned fine book by that Arthur C Clarke fellow. I am hoping that 2010 the year will be a damn fine year too, although the way I am feeling now it appears that things are transpiring against me.

I dropped a jar of organic pasta sauce in waitrose today which smashed on the floor much to my horror. I was then told by some spotty oik that it was quite common for the jars to jump off the shelves for no apparant reason and that I shouldnt worry.

I am glad the silly season is nearing its end, I have had far too many nights out, drunk far too much wine, brandy and the like and have eaten copious amounts of rather rich and exotic food.

Needless to say my new filly is testing my stamina too.

I am off for a jaunt of skiing next week to my favourite resort in france, where all the celebs go.

Mountain air should do me some good.
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