Some straight talking from a media mogul ...
POSTED: 1548 GMT (2348 HKT), September 20, 2006
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The U.S. invasion of Iraq was among the "dumbest moves of all time" that ranks with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia, billionaire philanthropist Ted Turner said Tuesday.
The founder of CNN and unabashed internationalist also defended the right of Iran to have nuclear weapons and the effectiveness of the United Nations and, in a jocular mood, advocated banning men from elective office worldwide in a Reuters Newsmaker appearance.
Alternately combative and humorous, Turner spoke nine years after his pledge to donate $1 billion to the United Nations over 10 years and on the same day President Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly a mile away.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq has caused "incalculable damage" that will take 20 years to overcome "if we just act reasonably intelligently."
"It will go down in history, it is already being seen in history, as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody. A couple of others that come to mind were the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia," Turner told the forum...
"...in a jocular mood,
"...in a jocular mood, advocated banning men from elective office worldwide..."
Reasons why this is a bad plan:
1) Condi Rice
2) Tzipi Livni
3) Margaret Beckett
4) Cherie Booth/Blair*
5) Hazel Blears
6) Patricia Hewitt
7) Tessa Jowell
8) Ruth Kelly
9) Margaret Hodge
10)Hilary Armstrong
11)Harriet Harman
12)Beverley Hughes
13)Rosie Winterton
14)Louise Ellman (Israel's MP in UK)
15)Margaret Thatcher (obviously)
By no means a comprehensive list. Women react to getting their hands on the levers of power by becoming just as offensive, deceitful and corrupted by that power as men.
We thought/hoped/were told they would change the tone of politics in the UK, but all Blair's Babes have shown is hypocricy and lies are an equal opportunities market now.
BTW, I'm a woman. No sexism here.
* Booth/Blair is not elected, but this has never stopped her from being both venal and vocal political commentator (and seller of political stories) in the public domain.
You forgot the
You forgot the arch-blairite:
16) Hilary Benn
oh yes hillary is like a
oh yes hillary is like a chip of the unreconstructed communist party,and a queer ,bob