MI5 Former Chief Decries 'War On Terror' -- The Guardian
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise 'unhelpful' term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks.
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, delivered a withering attack on the invasion of Iraq, decried the term "war on terror", and held out the prospect of talks with al-Qaida.
Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, Securing Freedom, she made clear she believed the UK and US governments had not sufficiently understood the resentment that had been building up among Arab people, which was only compounded by the war against Iraq.
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My Comment: So .... according to Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, 9/11 was a monstrous crime and not an act of war. Hmmmm .... if Bin Laden was still alive today I have a feeling that he would disagree.
Yes, it was an act of war, by a non state actor, Iraq did not attack us......
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan sheltered Bin Laden, so that attack made sense...
The Iraq attack, unprovoked, made no sense none