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8 January 2012, US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, said: “Are they ( Iranians) trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.” Why warmonger?

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

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@alunmichaelmp Facts are there in abundance- Portugal depenalised in 2001. Drugs deaths down 50%.€billions saved in costs of courts/prisons

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

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@alunmichaelmp INTELLIGENT remedies not the so-called TOUGH policies that have given UK worst outcomes in Europe. 15 years jail for mule?

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Bless Jamie and Louise on BBC Wales this morning. They had actually read HOW TO BE AN MP. Chance to proclaim virtues of peacemonger MPs

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TheCrachach The Crachach 

.@Paulflynnmp Thank you for your prompt & candid reply Mr. Flynn. We agree, prohibition doesn't work. We look forward to reading your book.

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

@TheCrachach Reclassifying cannabis by Labour REDUCED use/ harm. Prohibition doesn't work. UK Cannabis use here is MORE than in Netherlands.

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Many thanks for comments from those who have read HOW TO BE AN MP. I'll be talking about the book on BBC Wales at 9.00 and Radio Ulster 9.45

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Inevitably mangled by the Telegraph signs of intelligent reform on our drugs law should be welcomed. One drugs mule sentenced to 15 years.

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Headline in today's New York Times: "Bomb-'bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb Iran?" An academic Matthew Kroenig is a Stangelovian superhawk planning war

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Cameron proves he is a pygmy politician. Wednesday will be an EASY hit on Abu Quada. No progress on DIFFICULT reforms.paulflynnmp.typepad.com

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TransformDrugs TransformDrugPolicy 

It’s time to end the failed war on drugs: Branson: accept when you're wrong, work out why, change course dlvr.it/16jY01

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BitebackPub Biteback Publishing 

Monday morning blues? I have JUST the thing. Check out these extracts from @Paulflynnmp's 'How To Be An MP' bit.ly/xvD3YJ

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mndsc06 Miqdad Al-Nuaimi 

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@Paulflynnmp I also thought David Cameron's reply to Dennis Skinner's legit question was disrespectful &ageist. Should be DISCIPLINED!!!!

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

Newport pummelled by Tories/Lib Dem juntas in Newport and London, they borrowed wildly, public sector jobs threat. cut MPs From 2 to 1.

23 Jan       

Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

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@AnstDJ By insisiting on UK's national interests on matter of no significance, invites oppressive regimes to continue to abuse prisoners

23 Jan       

joshworrad Joshua 

Spent weekend reading "How to be an MP" by @Paulflynnmp.... Laughed loads. It's brilliant

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Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

CAMERON sabotages UK's chance to reform Human Rights Court by denying prison votes. Heigh, ho, We'll get next chance in 26 years time

22 Jan       

Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

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@eggynewydd Millions of cases prove the bad science of unreliable animal results. More details on blog soon.

22 Jan       

Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

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@simon_watkins Only about 10 people have read HOW TO BE AN MP so far. I believe it will be available in shops soon, on Amazon kindle etc.

22 Jan       

Paulflynnmp Paul Flynn 

3.7 million UK animal lives wasted to serve the myth that their bodies react to drugs as human bodies do.paulflynnmp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012…

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Comments

[rwendland]

Re Iran, Patrick Cockburn's analysis in The Independent today seems to me to be spot on:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-sanctions-can-only-deepen-the-iran-crisis-6296132.html

[DG]

Looks like we're going to war again, whether we like it or not.

[rwendland]

I really hope not DG. But you're right, the media hype in the west is certainly running that way. Would Obama really want a messy war before his election?

This won't be as contained as Iraq, and the effect on the opinions of Egyptian and other north African populations will probably be highly negative to the west. Not to mention the Turkish population. Egypt and Turkey are likely to become leading lights in the Arab world, and we should reflect on how this will play there.

BTW if anyone wants a good international law brief on the position of the IAEA re Iran, this is a good one, quite contrary to how it is usually played in our press:

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/2011/11/dan-joyner-iaea-report.php

"Iran's Nuclear Program and the Legal Mandate of the IAEA"

[DG]

It'd be good for Obama, I think - democracies don't usually switch leaders mid-conflict, and he's too vulnerable to the rabid sections of the right using the "Muslim-lover" label to put up much resistance.

Wider conflict doesn't bother the war-mongers and there are parts of Europe that'd be happy to cool relations with Turkey, too. Would make it easier to keep them out of the EU.

So, much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I suspect too many greedy, grubbing b'stards - on both sides - can see the bright side for it to go any other way :(

[DG]

Also, perhaps someone with more knowledge than me could speculate on how helpful having troops in Helmand province might be in any upcoming conflict with Iran. But maybe that's a cynical step too far.

[Paul Flynn]

Thanks DG and rwendland. There is a seemingly inevitable momentum is the drift to war. It is very reminiscent on the start of the 2nd Iraq War and the Helmand incursion.

[HuwOS]

Not to mention, seeing as you didn't the initial invasion of Afghanistan as well.

Trumped up justifications and claims that the other side are just too unreasonable, irrational to trust while all the time the Afghans were asking for reasonable and sane behaviour, offering solutions that met all reasonable requests but being ignored and demonised.

Pretty much identical really.