Most of us women like men, you know; it’s just that we find them a constant disappointment. Clare Short Read Quote
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they’d veto any second resolution – which wasn’t true, we now know. Clare Short Read Quote
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. Clare Short Read Quote
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. Clare Short Read Quote
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. Clare Short Read Quote
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. Clare Short Read Quote
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. Clare Short Read Quote
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. Clare Short Read Quote
