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I have an imprinted pillow set so I can lay my head upon her snuggly features of a night.

I will only replace my bedding if my Lady Diana, 'Princess of Hearts' pillowcases are clean and available.

Just seen the Middle East Peace Envoy on BBC Breakfast.

"don't rule out boots on the ground" he says. Well it won't be his boots and he should have zero say in any of this anyway. He's failed pretty badly in his "peace envoy" role.

Brown should have usurped Bliar a lot sooner than he did.

He may have given himself more manouvreability instead of being a dead man walking once firefighting from No10.

Interesting that Brown's intervention into the refendum debate was seen as influential and fairly respected amongst many political analysts, whilst alternatively, Phoney Tony doesn't appear to merit any credibility amongst anybody anymore

Britain should not get involved in any way. let the Sunni & Shia wipe each other out if they want to.



The states that do not want IS will easily defend against them.



As others have pointed out, certain sections of the political/religious demographic seem disinterested.

Cameron rushing to recall Parliament scared to death he's going to miss out on the Isil air-strike party.

If our masters across the pond want us to be in, we better be in, eh?

Agreed. Obama is going to dismantle ISIL. That's what they did with Al Qaeda ain't it? Cameron will go to war in the interests of peace and freedom. Bizarre world!



There is only one way to deal with this - boots on ground and totally and utterly crush any resistance from any group in North Africa and the Middle East. What people may call a "Crusade". Anything short of that won't work.

Would you kill all the Saracens?

What ever happened to El Cid?

He died in 2008, but to be fair, he [iwas[/i a big fan of the [iWar on Terror.[/i

Not now they've released Joel Tomkins.