[VRWC_minion]

Clwyd said she had been told about the case because the woman has relatives in Britain.

Is she one of the anti-war folks ?

[prairiebreeze]

An FR search on her name as keyword indicates she did support Blair's stance for the war. That said, I believe this story is total bunk.

Prairie

[MEG33]

Oddly enough,her talks with Kurds made her aware of so many atrocities that she helped Blair in his position for war.She is a socialist,but is sincere in her human rights work.I recall the difference between Clare Short,who resigned her position in Blair's cabinet and Clywd.
The relatives got the old lady's jewels back..probably the point of the yarn.Her constituent get thrown a bone about the evil Americans.

[CobaltBlue]

If you would take the time to google Ann Clwyd, you'd see that she favored the war against Saddam on humanitarian grounds, and publicly stated that she did not care whether there were WMD, getting rid of Saddam was enough.

She's taken a lot of heat from the Left for that, and also for publicly talking about the hundreds of thousands of bodies found in mass graves.

As for the woman who was "ridden like a donkey", I expect that the man "riding" her was tall enough to be able to straddle an old woman without putting his entire weight on her back.

My sisters and brothers and I did things like that when we were kids but not as adults, and not to old women.

I am quite amazed at the willingness of some Freepers to slime everybody who says things they don't want to hear. I guess it's human nature.

[dsutah]

No actually is one of the rare liberals, such as Christopher Hitchens, who supported the coalition going in there! I read a story about her several months ago. She has been to Iraq many times, and got to talking with some of the Kurds. She said what she heard about Saddam's atrocities on these people made her cry.

She claimed she was once against the war in Vietnam; until she went in and took a tour. She said she was sickened by what actually happened there too. Apparently, she came away with a different point of view. I don't know if she was gung-ho on a war, but she did want to see the Iraqis freed from Saddam. She's one of the rare liberal Labour Party people, like Blair and Straw, who were supportive of going in there; if anything to end the Iraqi peoples' misery under Saddam.