"A FORMER head of Britain's security service, MI5, yesterday described the response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US as a "huge overreaction""I would argue that a "huge overreaction" would have been the appearance of a mushroom cloud over a city (or cities), and anything else responding to a direct attack on a countries soil is, well, up for debate.
She goes further to say that:
"the invasion of Iraq influenced young men in Britain who turned to terrorism"Ah yes, that old chestnut. Root causes, blah blah blah. Remember kiddies, once the Obamamessiah takes the whitehouse, this silly thing call "Islamic Terrorism" will just disappear, having exposed itself to be just a right-wing conspiracy operation under the evil supernatural powers of Bush, Blair and Howard.
The actual article appears to cherry pick statements by Dame Stella so I'm not 100% convinced she is in fact against the "war on terror" rhetoric that the paper makes out to be, but a quick Google shows that the first female director of one Britains super secret organisations, is really not media shy in the slightest.
In fact, she's bringing out a spy novel, and has no problem doing many interviews, some of which are really hard hitting:
"With her pastel pink jacket and a demure single strand of pearls, Rimington might look like a typical society matron in Masterpiece Theater"So as much as I should defer to the opinion of someone who ran an intelligence agency, which clearly The Guardian and The Age would like us to listen to, it's a bit hard for me to take seriously someone who has to face down religious fanatics daily and protect the West doing puff-piece interviews wearing a "pastel pink jacket and a demure single strand of pearls".
At the very least she should be wearing a dark colour business suit....
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