Support the March 8th anti-war demos!

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday March 06, 2003 21:58 by Kristina McElroy Mcelroy1 at gofree dot indigo dot ie

"Ring your government TD's every hour on the hour to let them know that you want them to stop this unnecessary war on Iraq" said the Green Party's Kristina McElroy speaking at a press conference to publicise the nation wide protests on Saturday March 8th called by IAWM to focus attention on to the real targets of the proposed attack on Iraq.

She went on to say " If the Irish government is truly committed to the UN and the multilateral approach it should protest strongly against Anglo American war mongering. The fact is that a pre emptive strike is in breach of the UN charter itself and cannot be justified"

"People-power can stop this war and people power will enable the citizens of Iraq overthrow Sadam Hussein. The sanctions on Iraq must be lifted. If the citizens of Iraq had food in their stomachs ,clean water to drink and the continued support of the international community and the UN. Sadam could be overthrown without millions of Iraqis dying needlessly"

"Maybe then Bertie will listen to Irish people. He seems to have ignored the 150,000 who marched on February 15th"

"Sadam Hussein will be safe in his bunker but the women and children of Iraq will be brutaly maimed and killed by the weapons of mass destructions that George Bush and Tony Blair intend to hurl at the defenceless population of Iraq."

Kristina McElroy went on to ask "People to support the demonstration on Saturday 8th across the country"