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Chat => General => Topic started by: lemoneye on July 20, 2005, 04:02:49 pm

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: lemoneye on July 20, 2005, 04:02:49 pm

Just in case no one has seen or heard this yet - Ken Livingstone was quoted in several daily newspapers defending suicide bombers... hmmm... Mayor of WHERE? Can't be London, England. Just CAN'T be.....

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: on July 20, 2005, 04:09:59 pm

must have been a misquote

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: robbie on July 20, 2005, 04:20:25 pm

"I think we have just had 80 years of Western intervention in predominantly Arab lands because of the Western need for oil.

"We have propped up unsavoury governments, we have overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic.

"And I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs and sent him off to kill the Russians in Afghanistan and they didn't give any thought to the fact that once he had done that, he might turn on his creators."

"I think Londoners just weren't going to be divided. We aren't stupid. Those bombs are there to create a backlash, to fuel inter-communal violence, and that becomes a recruiting ground for terrorists."

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: oldspice on July 20, 2005, 10:42:23 pm

I cannot defend suicide bomber but neither can I defend the bombing of Iraq.  

 

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: on July 21, 2005, 09:48:14 am

Well said Oldspice.

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: maggiemay on July 21, 2005, 05:58:45 pm

Ken is so often mis-quoted. None of the press even tries to appreciate what he has done for London. if he was a hard-line right winger people would say what a great leader he is.

Title: Good ol’ Red Ken
Post by: lemoneye on July 22, 2005, 10:00:19 am

Good grief. Am i really reading this??????????