Mon 13 March - Jack Straw on Iran

"This man is a wonder kid of some note - he's at it again making statements that are really something to study.

"The latest being that the people of Iran deserve better than that which they currently have.

"May I be so bold as to remind him that not too many years ago, they had it all, a royal family, (maybe not constitutional, but certainly not to restrictive in relative terms), the freedom to set up in business and operate under a free market type economy, little in the way of an oppressive religious state system and so on.

"They, the people, chose to throw away that system and opted for a system of religious theocracy, which in its turn has thrown the Middle East into turmoil and strife, this being carried over into the rest of the world, with the oil embargioes and constant threats to world stability, a war of attrition with its next door neighbour, a fellow Muslim state and so on.

"Straw wants to get with it - we are at war with the current regime in Iran, whose leadership is just as well supported by the population as much as Germany was when they chose to put the Nazis into power in the mid thirties, and look what that got us into.

"There is a knowledge in the general populace that is obviously not extant in the government if Straw is representative of their state of mind.

"We know only too well at street level that this religo/cultural/political clash is upon us, but as I have stated before, Straw and the rest move in some sort of airy circle that appears to deny that what we all fear is the case, is in fact so.

"The French have come to realise it with the riots that they suffered in the latter end of last year, we have had a taste of it with the incidents last July, the Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and others have already suffered the same nonsense, the current situation in Iraq makes it patently obvious that we all are faced up with a war of attrition.

"These nutters hope to wear us down with all their explosive games, and thanks to the likes of Straw with his placatory and seemingly inane comments we are all likely to continue to feel the pinch of this clash of civilisations for years to come.

"We should be setting ourselves the task of rooting out these rogue states and their intolerant regimes, the sooner the better.

"They need a serious lesson in international good behaviour, and the first thing that needs to be taken in hand is the religious control of their states.

"Whatever it takes to do, so should be done, not wait for the armageddon as we did in 1939. We should be taking it to them, not waiting, or allowing them to bring it to us on our own doorsteps.

"If Straw cannot see the wood for the trees, then he should get out of the forest, and let the axeman in, sooner than later would be the best way."

Note - Morgan's views are not necessarily shared by the BBC