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mentioned in last debate)? By PoliJAM | March 7, 2008
Lord Trimble, the former First Minister of Northern Ireland, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that Hillary Clinton has exaggerated her part in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports that Lord Trimble recalls the former First Lady having no direct role in the peace process that was aided by her husband’s administration. Trimble told the newspaper:
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. 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.”
Lord Trimble’s recollection runs contrary to Senator Clinton’s who said, “I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland.” Clinton has been using the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland as an example of her foreign policy experience.
The UK paper goes on to say that another negotiator working with Lord Trimble, Steven King, argued that the First Lady was hurtful to the process in that she did nothing of important, but did play a part as “a cheerleader for the Irish republican side of the argument.”
Lord Trimble, the former First Minister of Northern Ireland, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that Hillary Clinton has exaggerated her part in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports that Lord Trimble recalls the former First Lady having no direct role in the peace process that was aided by her husband’s administration. Trimble told the newspaper:
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around,” he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely “the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets” during elections. “She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. 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.”
Lord Trimble’s recollection runs contrary to Senator Clinton’s who said, “I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland.” Clinton has been using the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland as an example of her foreign policy experience.
The UK paper goes on to say that another negotiator working with Lord Trimble, Steven King, argued that the First Lady was hurtful to the process in that she did nothing of important, but did play a part as “a cheerleader for the Irish republican side of the argument.”