Clare Short
Clare Short
Clare Shortis a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She stood down as a member of parliament at the 2010 general election. Short was Secretary of State for International Development in the government of Prime...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 February 1946
thinking iraq suffering
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
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Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.
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I mean the UK in this time was also getting - spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on.
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I'm not sending a minister because I don't expect it to be an effective summit.
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It's very ugly. We're spending a lot more, we're getting rich people to fund it, and it is corroding our political system.
system
There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,
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The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.
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You might not think it to read the coverage in the British media, but this woman is some kind of hero in the poorest regions of the world. People in the Foreign Office used to laugh at the international development department. Now its work is seen as integral to British international standing.
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But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
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To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.