#6
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller sounds like she would fit in well with the BO regime if she thinks 911 was not an act of terror but a crime. Wants to negotiate with AQ. How does she ignore the acts of terrorism in GB? Naive twit.
#7
I still wonder how the world would be if W. had used the good-will and patriotism after Sept 11 to push through a massive nuclear energy program. The plants would have been online by now and the world would be a different place in a whole lot of ways.
#9
She is married to an 'Irish Catholic by birth who once held strong left wing views', whose surname has not been publicly identified and who, according to Wikipedia, has 'recently retrained as a carpenter' despite her status now as a Baroness. He apparently brought 5 children from a former marriage into their family.
She was involved in MI5 efforts WRT the IRA.
And it appears she was among the British who were both scathingly critical of the US approach in Iraq and - perhaps - humiliated when we had to go in and fix Basra after their 'softly softly' approach which had been honed with the Irish turned out .... not to work so very well in Iraq.
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