[piasa]

Richard Hansen of Virgin Airlines padding his resume for a run against UK PM Tony Blair?

First he gets to "rescue" the same hostages the former ambassador Joe Wilson allegedly "rescued" (and Jessie Jackson "rescued"?) from Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War...

Then he gets involved with the Jimmy Carter/Mandela/Scott Ritter/ Norman peace deal to try to talk Hussein into leaving Iraq...[one version says it was a deal to talk Hussein into going into exile, another version indicates it was a plant that originated with Tariq Aziz and alKhafajii apparently that was intended to keep the UN inspectors in Iraq but under Iraqi supervision so as to delay the US and UK attack]

Then after that Mr. Virgin Airlines goes for a deal to fly relief supplies into Iraq.

And he's starting a group headed by South Africa's former prez Mandela to "head off" wars, a group called the Elders.

He's quite the aspiring George Soros style "philanthropist," eh?

[piasa]

Maybe he should add a few purple hearts and a silver star to his resume to top it off.

[Cindy]

Nothing like team work.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!