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Bush Visit and North Peace Process

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday April 05, 2003 02:26author by SF Member - SF Report this post to the editors

This is a disgraceful and disgusting piece of theatre by Bush, Blair and Ahern.

This is a disgraceful and disgusting piece of theatre by Bush, Blair and Ahern.

The first SF knew about this visit was by phone call from BBC office shortly after 3pm. We have been fucked over on this. A BIG decision was due to be made this weekend by IRA, I am not sure that it still will, but the Brits had agreed to the schedule and their response had been seen and approved by the Republician Movement. Then some genius in the US State Dept, from what some Dublin contacts tell us, gets wind of it and next thing we know is that Bush is on his way to coattail on the historic decision.

We have been fucked over, morally this is wrong for SF and politically we are stuck. Stuck and fucked.

No idea still what leadership are planning for next week but, if you like, 'draft' decision is to go. Although contacts have been made with SDLP to organise joint boycott.

The dilemma is;

If we meet this piece of imperialist shit we have collabarated with his piece of propaganda. Namely that he and Blair are peacemakers.

If we don't meet with him we will be left out in the cold with regards to the irish peace process and any final deal will be dealt by SEVERE repressive security measures.

Whatever prick came up with this idea should get a nobel prize for deviousness.

I, for one, am dumbfounded how to ensure the Republician Movement delivers on it military compromises without critically damaging its political appproach to a united ireland.

Other Republicians/Shinners/etc; any ideas on this one?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Brain Dead     lalric    Sat Apr 05, 2003 05:04 
   Two choices     Chris    Sat Apr 05, 2003 10:50 
   Comments moved here     Aidan    Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:08 
   lots of articles     .    Sat Apr 05, 2003 12:50 
   Ye should have known     Wild Irishman    Sat Apr 05, 2003 13:43 
   Announce . . .     Rob    Sat Apr 05, 2003 14:06 
   So it seems Sinn Fein might have considered the value of Whiskey more carefully?     iosaf ipsiphi    Sat Apr 05, 2003 15:17 
   and a 19 seconds of RTE footage of TDs being removed from Leinster House doesn't make up for it     iosaf    Sat Apr 05, 2003 15:20 
   i go on....     iosaf    Sat Apr 05, 2003 15:21 
 10   Solutions are not always complex.     Sparks    Sat Apr 05, 2003 15:24 
 11   Thanks Irish-America     Justa Moron    Sat Apr 05, 2003 15:32 
 12   Moved     IMC    Sat Apr 05, 2003 16:15 
 13   University of Texas     iosaf    Sat Apr 05, 2003 17:07 
 14   ?     Wild Irishman    Sat Apr 05, 2003 20:52 
 15   Disappointed SF Member     SF Activist    Sun Apr 06, 2003 03:01 


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