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"Over 50 years ago...."

Another man, in another time, gave this speech;

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who's acutally in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who goes actually to do the deeds, who spends himself in a worthy cause, but at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worse, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that he plays fairly, never to be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

That man was President Theodore Roosevelt.

The same can be said of this moment in history where we are literally weeks away from a war, or a new peace.

Bear in mind that the USA is not George Bush, that the UK is not Tony Blair, that both countries are made up of millions of people. Whatever their reasoning, both countries cannot be faulted for actually bringing the issue of Iraq to the attention of everyone. All that remains now is victory or defeat, problem is that no one is quite sure what either means in this situation....

Then again, you are insane. And inbred.

That's cool if that's what you think Blank, I'm not going to argue.
I disagree and say that anyone, you/me has the ability and power to change things at a fundamental level.
Be it bringing charges against Blair and Labour for being in breach of International Law, whatever.

I don't recall any major changes in the economy after the last gulf war. First year of high school seemed the same as normal afterwards...

Goaty - in theory we can persuade him to change his mind, but we actually have no power whatsoever. If he wants to do anything he can.

Of course it won't be.

Just like it wasn't adversely affected by the last Gulf War.

Oh...

The economy won't be adversely effected by the war. Sure there will be knock-ons, but nothing that will effect me.

And refugees? I doubt I'll come across too many of them.

And if I do?

I don't care!

Cos of course, a war won't affect the economy at all. Just like the last Gulf War didn't.

Oh....



And I'm with Goatboy on this one. If the attack does go ahead, I'd love to start a case against Blair for breaching international law!

Yes, but the economy will be affected by war, as will a lot of things. God help you if you hate refugees...

I don't disagree with Bush/Blair. Neither do I agree with them.

I ignore them because I don't care. The only thing that matters to me is how Blair conducts internal affairs which effect me, such as the economy.

There are so few people who agree with Bush and Blair that I feel ill (never mind about the fact that I have an ear infection). But it'll only be when there's a genuine taskforce who set out to make Bush and Blair look at the whole situation and realise that we don't to bomb thousands of innocent Iraqis, and that if he doesn't listen to the people who actually elected him, he'll be out of a job. It'll be then that things start to reflect what we want, what the people want, what the people, who elected this guy, actually feel that is best for them, and not just for Bush.