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.
loss suffering population
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
war preparation suffering
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
system
There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,
birmingham died obviously people pub worse
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.
change
I have set out to change the language of the international system.
aid bear brought enormous intelligence lady misuse people promise round services trying
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
anyway bully countries war
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.
both civilians descending gaza obviously targeting terrorist worse
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
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The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
again attorney brought defence domain fishy legal legality public question stopped suspicion war
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
fund people political rich spending
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.
organized reports systematic
We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,
babies becoming people side thousands
There are thousands and thousands of people on the other side of the border, not being fed, babies are being born, people are becoming sick,