Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
I think her tough childhood as a refugee made her a tough outspoken person which upset folks reading her fathers woes dies explain a lot in 39 her dad
fled to UK for political becasuse some of her grandparents were and died in Nazi concentration camps.

They finally went home after WW2 but moved to the USA in 1948 after Soviet Communist seized power in Prague.

Her dad and Madeleine certainly went through hard times .

I'm sure we all say things In the moment and deeply regret what they sound like many years later as we become better advised as the world moves on.
You'd make a fantastic propagandist LoM. Trying to excuse her support and implementation of policies which apparently killed millions of people, including the aforementioned 500,000 Iraqi children, by talking about her childhood refugee status and her grandparents' fate at the hands of the Nazis is pure apologism. But, you know, she'd been through some hard times, bless her.

She was not in a position to say something that she would regret after becoming 'better advised' on it in later life. She was there, in the moment and she knew fine well what she was doing. It sounded like she fully believed that the world should bow to the rules set by the USA and its allies or face the consequences and that her actions were protecting the children of her nation whilst destroying those in other countries that didn't matter as much. When the UN's Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq calls their sanctions 'genocide' and resigns his post, I think that says it all. I wonder what your response would be if Putin said that the deaths of 500,000 Ukrainian children was 'worth it'?

It's worth reading the alternative views, of which there are many:

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...she-really-was

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinio...bright-no-less