Mr Bigstuff

You would have to be an absolute basketcase to believe any of the september 11 conspiracy theory stuff. It’s as loopy as all that Roswell/alien abduction drivel. Once you start believing that nonsense it won’t be long before you start wearing tin-foil hats to stop the CIA from reading your brainwaves.

It’s a documented fact that European countries and the USA provided Saddam with everything he needed to build WMDs. Your attitude seems to be “we sold him the stuff, but isn’t it outrageous that he actually used it”. A responsible barman wouldn’t sell booze to someone who was already drunk, a responsible gunstore owner wouldn’t sell a gun to a…[Read more]

Italian players are always diving or cheating in some way. That’s why the non-Italians in the stadium were booing when Italy went up to collect the trophy, because they saw how Materazzi orchestrated Zidane’s sending off. I can’t remember a world cup final where the winning team was booed before and I can’t remember one where most people thought…[Read more]

@ForumHostPB wrote:

@Mr Bigstuff wrote:

Either way, the law is clear in the fact that Israel has no legitimate claim to the occupied territories. So even if you don’t think the Palestinians are the original inhabitants it doesn’t change the fact that Israel shouldn’t be in the West Bank.

…… and yet Mr B , there they are – and there they stay.…

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The point is that these things shouldn’t be happening. A 14 year old girl raped and murdered by the “liberators” of Iraq. I don’t support the death penalty but the accused soldiers could be put to death and they would deserve it. In all probability, they will probably get off with a light sentence. Now you know why the USA didn’t want to sign up…[Read more]

Phoenicians originated from Lebanon or Syria. The Canaanites lived in ancient Palestine. The 2 areas overlap but I think Phoenicians are considered ancient Lebanese rather than ancient Palestinian. I think the Canaanites mixed with the later inhabitants and so it does make sense to say that the Palestinians descended from the original…[Read more]

@Matty wrote:

every penalty of italys was un stopable

Italy beat germany, somthing argintina could’nt do, no excuses can be given, Italy were solid at the back, and organised.. just because they did’nt show attacking football, does not mean they did’nt deserve to be world champions

Italy stole the cup. France were robbed. Argentina only lost…[Read more]

Israel has a mandate to exist but it has no right to the Occupied territories. I have no problem with Israel apart from its actions towards the palestinians. I believe in a 2 state solution and because there is already such a symbiosis between Israelis and Palestinians, I can envisage a day in the very distant future when Palestinians and Israelis…[Read more]

France lost 3 of their best penalty takers and that’s why Italy won. They were unworthy winners in my opinion, France was the only side that looked like scoring a 2nd goal before penalties.

I also disagree about there not being an outstanding team. Argentina were the best team in the tournament but their manager made a massive blunder in the game…[Read more]

The only thing I’m accepting is that you keep getting your facts wrong and if you check back through your recent posts you’ll see that you’ve had to backtrack on the comments you’ve made.

As for the idea of militants being fuelled simply by Islamic extremism and a fanatical desire to wage jihad against the Jews, how do you explain the Christian…[Read more]

You were wrong about the quote. I gave a quotation from an interview given by Ismail Haniyeh to Haaretz in late May of this year. You also overlook the fact that the quote by Rantisi is 2 years old and Rantisi was assasinated quite a while ago. He was a former leader but Haniyeh is the current leader of the Hamas government. What it does prove,…[Read more]

If France had been awarded that 2nd penalty it all would have been so much different. Italy didn’t really deserve to win but France were unlucky and Zidane had a moment of madness. Funny how little incidents have such large impacts i.e. Saha picking up a yellow against Portugal and missing the final. He would have come on for Henry instead of…[Read more]

Once again you’re ignoring the facts. Yes the military wing of hamas has been involved in many acts of terrorism but can you say the same thing about the social wing of Hamas? So to call it a purely terrorist organisation is far too simplistic. You also say the actions of the IDF are completely unconnected to violence from the Palestinian side.…[Read more]

Germany will win 3rd place and France will win the final.

You seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing. You’re making things up to suit your argument and ignoring everything else that doesn’t suit your argument. Quote the post where I said Hamas was not involved in terrorism and the post where I supposedly said they primarily target military targets. You can’t because I never said those things. Anyway,…[Read more]

Destiny seems to be on France’s side (as long as Barthez wipes the butter off his gloves).

As for Rooney, he stamped on the guy’s balls. Even if ronaldo hadn’t been playing that day he still would have got a red. The ref even said Ronaldo had nothing to do with the decision.

There have been some great games from the last 16 onwards:

2nd Round

Argentina vs Mexico
Portugal vs holland (because of all the drama)
Brazil vs Ghana (because Ghana outplayed Brazil at times)
Spain vs France

1/4 finals

Germany vs Argentina
Brazil vs France

1/2 finals

Germany vs Italy

Those were all entertaining football matches in my…[Read more]

It’s true that events in Iraq, afghanistan, iraq, etc. lead to the alienation and disenchantment of young muslims, but to attack London because of it was just idiotic. How stupid must those bombers have been? It was a completely futile and irrational act. So many lives destroyed for no valid reason at all.

God save us all from politicians and…[Read more]

When did I ever say that Hamas was not involved in terrorism? All I said was that attacks on Israeli military targets are not acts of terrorism because they are combatants. If attacks on soldiers in a conflict equates to terrorism then all war is terrorism.

You say Hamas could never compromise but they said the same thing about Arafat and the…[Read more]

You say there’s no alternative but to report non-violent protests if the violence stops but the news companies can just ignore those type of protests. Non violent protests get ignored all the time even in this country. Occasionally you get news reports about organisations such as Seeds of Peace but mostly the activities of the non-violent and the…[Read more]