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Yes.

That's a taste of what we're gonna get next summer.

But Cook may have known that Blair was aware that Iraq posed little or no WMD threat to the UK and purposely sexed up the idea to force regime change. At the moment Blair gets away with it because he can always point to the official line from the secret services, and that's where any inquiry hits a brick wall because what happens there remains secret. Iraq barely had a working tank when we invaded, let alone anything near WMDs, you have to be naive in the extreme to believe the US, UK or Israeli secret services didn't know that at the time. Their military was decimated through years of sanctions. In fact I would say the only reason we DID invade was because they knew for a fact that there was no threat, even to countries near them like Israel.

In my opinion the most likely reason for the bizarre and nasty method was that it was done as a warning to other MI6 agents. I expect this guy snooped a bit too far into some other country's affairs and by killing him this way they made it obvious that it was assassination.

It is bonkers isn't it, we actually live in a world where our police want us to believe that this guy climbed into a hold all, got into a bath and locked it himself in and accidentally died. All without leaving fingerprints on the lock or bath.

Maybe Cook had proof or was willing to testify that the government knew Iraq didn't have WMDs when they took us into war?

Or the depression of finishing 9th instead of 8th. If they hadn't have wasted their time winning that cup they might have finished above West Brom.

Havn't read enough about it to be honest but does seem a bit 'convenient'.

I have always been open to the idea of state-sponsored assassinations just not involving robots flying planes or half of London being crisis actors. Any plot would be simple, only even involve a hand full of people at most, and be very low risk.

Kelly was obviously assassinated, there was not even a proper coroner's inquest into his death which is outrageous considering the huge motivation for assassination. Another obvious assassination is this guy... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24927078 Probably an accident! He was found naked in a padlocked bag in a bath. It appear no matter how obvious a murder there is no limits to what we are supposed to accept as plausible excuses.

Most of those are just arse-holes trying to be different for the sake of it. Cortese could say night doesn't follow day and at least 6% of the mongboard would come out in agreement, don't try and pretend you know anything about football.

That was Saints in the 80's

We have had an easy set of fixtures so we are probably in a bit of a false position so I wouldn't be surprised if we only win one or two more before Xmas. having said that, a bit of confidence goes a long way and we are playing well. If we can keep the team fit there is no reason why we cannot keep it up.

I was wrong about Pochettino, thought it would be a disaster.

It was great because you could shout at the players and they could hear you and sometimes shout back. I remember some great banter, players like Neil Ruddock and Ian Wright always had something to say.

Even weirder wanting Man Utd to win to give us a chance of going top!

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It is fantastic to hear, to do what we are doing with a nucleus of English players bodes very well for the future. Imagine what our squad would be like if we had kept hold of Walcott, Bale and Chamberlin!

Beat Arsenal, lose to Chelsea.

It's not a traditional war though is it? If it was I would think it was out of order. Does the Geneva Convention even apply when the enemy are not in uniform, sneaking around pretending to be civilians, hiding behind women and kids, then blowing themselves up taking out civilians in the process? If we send our boys out to fight guerrilla warfare in these sh!thole countries we shouldn't expect them to behave like Tommy from WW1, it's a different set of rules.

We are an above average Premier League side who has had an easy start, that's all.

I feel sorry for the bloke who got sent down as I probably would have done the same thing in his situation. They shouldn't be out there in the first place.

True, but unless you pay a sh!t load of cash that affinity doesn't count for much.

It's great to hear but lets not be naive, players love it here because they are being paid a sh!t load of cash.

I don't doubt that but this old chap obviously feels many didn't have a choice, I don't think either of us are in a position to call him a liar.