Is it me or is that Margaret Becket the biggest hypocrite ever ?

Question

or is she delusional ?.I have just had to turn the tv of i couldn`t look at her smirking and going on about how we have to stand together and show the middle east violence is wrong what does she think has been going on in iraq and Afghanistan the way she`s talking its like we popped over there for a cup of tea and a chat.

Allen;L it must be you with the problem about her appearance,neither me or anyone else here has mentioned how she looks let alone insulted her about it

Answer 1

She is a massive hypocrite yes, but not the biggest. Blair is worse. What she, and the rest of what is left of the neo-con movement, are saying is, that it is wrong for anyone who is not supported and openly funded (rather than secret black ops eg P2OG) by us to commit violence. When WE commit violence that is OK, even IF we have killed more Iraqis in three years than Saddam did in over 20. West butchery of innocents = good Islamic butchering of innocents = bad! When we kill, it's not violence, it's spreading democracy (ignoring the fact that when Iraqis voted and got their prime-minister in place based on a minority vote, the US and UK did not approve and had him replaced with their current prime minister. Some democracy!)

When they do it, it is terrorism, when we do it, and then impose draconian laws based on the results of it, it's called policy.

Did you know, for example, that if an Iraqi journalist insults or critisizes the new democratic Iraqi government that he/she will face a manditory 7 years prison sentance? Wow freedom of the press? in a democratic Iraq? No chance!

The west have not succeeded in ANY of their aims in Iraq, including democracy or freedom, except one. Bechtel have pulled out of Iraq. Other multinational corporations, funded with secret no-bid, cost plus contracts have made a massive fortune from the taxpayers, as they have had the military blow up chunks of the Iraqi infrastructure time after time after time. They are then paid a fortune to use sub-standard parts to re-build. only to have the military blow it up again.

Schools are bombed and re-built over and over again under the guise that militants and insurgents are using them for weapons storage. the corporations have made their money and are moving out, waiting for the next cash cow war. Salivating with feindish expectation at the prospects of taking on Iran.

No it's not the CEO's relatives that have to fight in this war, they are too busy counting their cash and preparing cushy boardroom places for the politician's whose lies enabled the wars to take place, and their media pundit's who failed to investigate those lies, who failed to notify the public of the gross level of inhuman and evil corruption that our publicly elected officials are involved in.

It's not just Beckett that is hypocritical, it is the whole media too.

Answer 2

I don't know, she has some competition in the cabinet (Jowell and Prescott spring to mind).

However, it would be amusing (were it not both frustrating and tragic) to see politicians squirming because what was predicted by over a million people who took to the streets to protest against the invasion of Iraq has actually come to pass.

Who ever believed that the best way to stop Saddam killing Iraqis was to kill even more Iraqis ourselves? Or that the way to stop people turning to Islamic terrorism was to wade in with hob-nailed boots and start trampling all over Islamic countries?

Answer 3

Margaret Becket is a very astute politician who will listen to all sides of an argument and take a constructive view of each problem that arises before she acts. Just because America has changed it's stance does not mean that we should. We are there because the Afghan and Iraq governments need our support and for no other reason. Her appearance has no bearing on the quality of her judgement so don't be so insulting.

Answer 4

She is another useless article, a product of this governments spin and sleaze. She is another minister with their snout in the trough. She has taken her husband aged 79, on eight foreign trips lasting 27 days, since she took over as foreign secretary in May this year, all paid for by the tax payer. She employs her husband as her chief of staff and we pay for it through her parliamentary allowance, talk about keeping it in the family? Plus a nice little pension when this period of screwing the public ends. No wonder she can afford to walk about with a smirk on her face.

Answer 5

Oh yes, she is quick to condemn violence in Iraq and Afghanistan but when Israel invaded Lebanon this year she refused to condemn that action, saying something like "If we condem the Israelis, they simply won't listen to what we have to say."

She is not delusional and she is certainly not even handed. She simply backs both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and supports Israeli aggression. Beckett will say anything that backs these ends.

Answer 6

She would not be in her job if she is thinking differently!
It is a job requirement to support Israel all the way. These people are so blind, the key to stop terrorism is to stop supporting the Israeli terror and create a Palestinian State. The Israeli blood is more precious than Arab blood! That is why their will never be peace in the middle east.

Answer 7

I agree with you entirely. Surely Tony Blair has someone better to nominate as our countrie's representative? Or perhaps he will use her as the scapegoat for Iraq, in the same way that Bush has just used Donald Rumsfeld!

Answer 8

Well she wouldn't let Geoff Hoon the Minister for Europe talk about Europe - he had to questions about Uganda - she doesn't seem the most sensible person for the job.

Mind you in time of crisis ! ... I expect she'll go on holiday in her Caravan. Best thing too.

Answer 9

She's a Politician. Enough said.

Answer 10

Surely not the biggest - just another in a long line...