It is strange to think that the cradle of civilisation has degenerated into a third world state. I refer to Iraq - not the UK, although our present administration appear hell bent on attaining that title for this nation. I do not believe that the current sytem of government in Iraq will gladly do the best thing for that nation and go quietly. The religious fanatics who trade on superstition and fear will not relinquish power without wasting the blood of their own people. This is tragic. Iraq has so much to give the world - the bulk of Iraqi people are very well educated and intelligent. Anybody working in the construction industry will back that statement up.

David Milliband does indeed lack the gravitas of former Foreign Secretaries - he seems more like a little schoolboy playing in a game way above his league. However, he is all that we have at present and I am quite sure that he will be well advised by those more senior parties who have an interest in these things.

It is not the place of the United Kindom - or the United States - to dictate to other countries how they should run their internal affairs. However, if those countries show signs of destabilising the world then both the UK and the USA, along with all the other nations have a duty to to send a clear message to that country that their conduct is not acceptable. At the moment, the conduct of the present Iraqi administration is not acceptable to the majority of other countries and it deserves all of the flak that it gets. The middle east is not a stable area and any nation that threatens to destabilise it further must be dealt with by the rest of the world. In this we have a role to play - and a duty to all other nations to ensure that any action that is taken to restore the fragile stability is both fair and effective. The UN must be given it's teeth and the time has never been more important for all nations to find agreement on the way forward for our successors.

Easy to build an A-bomb? Instructions on the Web? Like these http://windycurls.xanga.com/692265470/spoof-how-to-build-you
r-own-h-bomb--a-satrical-recipe/ Sorry about colours, I didn't design the site

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/Humor/abomb.txt
Or this

Furthermore, the current movement of troops into Helmand, and with Pakistan building their military prescence on their side of the border we are seeing a co-ordinated pincer-like movement designed to bring pressure and moral support to Iran's freedom movement. The "Mourning Mothers" are the new political front of this movement and they have demanded an end to violence and the right to free protest and justice for all. The troops are assembled at Iran's borders, Muslims and Christians collaberating against the warmongering of fascists, in support of freedom for women. With Iran's highly educated female population winning control over their country's resources we will see a better Middle-East.
For every Palestinian woman who danced in the streets of Gaza on 9/11, there are hundreds of Palestinian women who are being brutalised and raped by their own men. These silent voices are building momentum, supporting the struggle in Iran for protection by law. Pakistani women also are fighting to improve their lives, rebelling against their fathers' dictates and finding the support to do so in Westminster.
When we break the back of middle-eastern mysogeny we will also see the end of female genito-mutilation in Africa and better health care for those suffering from years of endless child bearing. When you invest in the women, you invest in the future health and wealth of your sons on the global scale. It's all about the women you know. It is not female hearts under judgement, emancipation of womanhood is key to global harmony. All of the great warmongers were sexist and used women without contrition, these deceivers designed dispair, suffering and poverty.
Global harmony is extreemly important, because earth is about to undergo huge disruptions and before this happens we need to declare a global amnesty on all weapons, to gather them up for recycling. We need to decide which languages are going to be taught as global languages to protect ethnic diversity and therefore female run communities. I cannot stress enough how important global cohesian is for the continuance of human evolution. World government knows it, but again men dictate events, not women, and men are poor communicators, they think that they have to tell half-truths and lies to get their way.

The sooner we tell the US to go it alone the better, suddenly we would find that terrorist no longer want to blow up innocent people in this country . Bring our troops back from around the world. Unless their is a direct attack on the UK then we should let others be, but i guess whilst the rest of europe tells us what to do then we will continue to bully others. Britain, pull out of the EU, pull out the middle east and finally pull us out of america's ass!!!!! Look after the UK. If anyone then attacks us then, and only then do we defend ourselves and show no mercy.

Now we know to stop this rot entering our country!

alix.cleverdon - what is it with your long winded, idealogical dogma ???? - Have you been studying this at college or something - It seems a very biased and 'wimmen' empowering view !!! LMAO.

alix.cleverdon - Infact, having read your posting again - I am convinced its just pro-feminist mumbo jumbo and not at all relevant to the topic!

A lot of people have got a lot of things mixed up here. Iran is a despotic nation and doesn't care less what anyone says or does. But if it is allowed to develop nucleur weapons, it is quite clear what it will do. It has declared that it wishes to become the most powerful nation in the Middle East. But it is governed by fanatics. How long will it be before they turn their weapons on Israel? And then what will people on this site say then? That it still has nothing to do with us? I'm not advocating the sort of response that was made against Iraq. I doubt if that is possible. Iran would be a far, far tougher nut to crack. No. We need constant, patient, but firm negotiations. Iran, I believe, wants to be accepted in the international community, but it has to know that having nucleur weapons is not a passport to achieving acceptance. Nevertheless, we cannot allow ourselves to be trampled on. We don't treat other countries like this, we shouldn't accept that sort of behaviour from others. Iran has to conduct itself in a civilised way and stop looking for scape-goats. We are not to blame for what has been happening in Iran, it is the blinkered administration there. How can tampering with election results be seen as fair in this, or any other century? They need to be able to face up to what their people want - freedom. If they don't, this could just be the beginning and their system will be brought down, not by the West but by their own inability to move with the times. And that could lead to dangerous times. The regime may decide to go out with a bang, quite literally. When things are tough at home, fall back on foreign policy. It's always been the way. We need to be very watchful otherwise those of us who sit in our cozy living rooms in Milton Keynes and turn a blind eye to what is going on in the world, and the dangers lurking within lunatic states, will be wondering why they're being told to evacuate and head for the hills!
We can't remain in splendid isolation. We tried that. It didn't work. It led to the First world War, ultimately. If we don't confront the dangers in this world, we could be facing an even more nightmarish confrontation. Iran may not be the most dangerous threat - that is the threat of the Taliban - but it is a threat nevertheless and we cannot simply ignore what happens globally. We have a lot of ignorance in the UK. The government needs to educate the people about what is actually happening, why our soldiers are out their fighting. That will go some way, I hope, to silence some of the utter tripe that is spouted on here.

How about we arrest a few Iranians over here on trumped up charges and see what happens next.Altenatively let's nuke 'em !