expert militarist on national radio

Friday January 10, 2003 22:54

by daisuke

this morning on "Today with Pat Kenny" there was a brief piece on the upcoming,long awaited, inaugaral war of the century(millenium even). Featured were Shannon's premier graf artist Eoin Dubsky,and Capt.Tom Clonan (retired) RTE's military commentator for the day....

There were sparks flying over the airwaves,seeing as the champion of peace,and the champion of war had locked horns before... they both kept their swords in their sheaths,however herr kapitan(retired) did rather smugly refer to Michael D. Higgins and Eoin Dubsky as "a dying breed" and referred to his opponent in the debate as (cover your ears children!) "an idealist"

Debate on the legality or otherwise of Shannon's use for military transports was welcomed by the Captain,he believed it was legal and reasonable and that "informed debate" would make everyone realise how benign it all is. "Shannon is of immense strategic importance" he said citing the undeniable logic of efficent warfare-"it's cheaper" he said, the shorter the journey between bases the better "fuel-load ratio" is attained.

With everything else in place- that means everything - all weapons,munitions,planes,tanks,communications,command centres-all that's left is the men to guide the machines.60,000 in place now are most likely base security,transport and logistics-but the final pieces of the puzzle are jetting through airspace not too far from you-250,000 by the end estimated Capt.Clonan.He suggested that Ireland has a duty to allow safe passage of civilian flights through our airspace-most of the troops mentioned will be transported in this manner.It seems the only weapons left to ship are the GIs and they are on civilian flights...military flights are however allowed by a 1952 order (under review in the courts).

Eoin Dubsky confined himself to "idealistic"
arguments avoiding the complex legal issues due to his court commitments,but urged people to ignore the "with us or against us" attitude presented by the "enron-pentagon junta" and oppose Saddam Hussein and Daddy's boy Bush

The Captain now a lecturer in communications in Dublin Institute of Technology had the last say before the adverts(buybuybuyouneedthishit)
"as long as we're white,as long as we're christian,as long as we're a liberal democracy,warts and all-we should support this ..." initially i was shocked at the fascist notion he was farting-us and them(muslims?coloureds?commies?pinkos?) what's more surprising is that he ignores his own lecture notes-think then speak...

http://www.radio.ie/morning/patkenny/