Posted on 03/08/2008 6:39:42 AM PST by fightinJAG
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
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Mrs Clinton has made Northern Ireland key to her claims of having extensive foreign policy experience, which helped her defeat Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday after she presented herself as being ready to tackle foreign policy crises at 3am.
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland," she told CNN on Wednesday. But negotiators from the parties that helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 told The Daily Telegraph that her role was peripheral and that she played no part in the gruelling political talks over the years.
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There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall, though Mrs Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on the Christmas tree lights in November 1995. The former First Lady appears to be referring a 50-minute event the same day, arranged by the US Consulate, the same day at the Lamp Lighter Café on the city’s Ormeau Road.
The "Belfast Telegraph" reported the next day that the café meeting was crammed with reporters, cameramen and Secret Service agents. Conversation "seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times" and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her, for keeping the brew "so nice and hot".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I don’t know how those Rose Law Firm files ended up in my possession.
Bill’s infidelity is a creation of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
I don’t know who hired Craig Livingstone.
I had nothing to do with the firing of Billy Dale and the rest of the White House travel office.
Vince Foster committed suicide.
That ain’t padding! That’s her claim to blackness, her Ghetto Bootie!
I knew this was going to come back and bite her on her ample backside....
Hillary’s been nipping a wee bit o’ the liarish...
“I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
There’s a ready made soundbite for ya!
Maybe the teapot thing was where she got the idea she could make off with the silver and tableware.
... and Madeline Albright probably got a brooch out of the deal.
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