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Bush's envoy presses for completion of IRA surrender.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday March 08, 2003 20:52author by Shelta Daltun

On his last visit to Ireland, Bush's imperial envoy, Haass, got Aherne to illegally and criminally militarize Shannon to facilitate Anglo-American mass murder. In an interview from Washington with the Belfast Telegraph, Haass now says that sanctions are necessary to punish those those who breach the Stormont agreement. He hoped for 'acts of completion' by the IRA. Putting pressure on the Adams faction, Haass said 'we'll see what the IRA is prepared to sign up to'. Bush is now coercing the IRA as he is coercing the UN Security Council. Will the coercion work?

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No
author by Avi H.publication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 21:00author address author phone

No, because the real hard men of the IRA are fascists and pyschopaths. Therefore, they are addicted to murder. They know that without their weapons they are nothing.

laos cambodia
author by laos cambodiapublication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 21:22author address author phone

so they're in the same camp as rumsfold / bush?

Well
author by NVpublication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 22:35author address author phone

I oppose US state terrorists and IRA terrorists. Do you?

You can't be anti-war in one place and pro-war in another.

clarity please
author by nolympicspublication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 23:11author address author phone

nv, your question makes no sense, do you mean "are you against all violence all the time?" or are you simply conflating state violence with anti state violence. bush and co, blair and bertie would have us believe that state violence is legal and above reproach in all circumstances because state power is derived from it. unless you are under their spell and thinking like the state you've got to recognize the distinction between these two forms of 'terror'.

terrorists
author by NVpublication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 23:19author address author phone

I do distinguish between the two forms of terror. One type pretends to be legally justified, one pretends to be morally justified. But both have greater political goals (US power in the world, getting NI out of UK). Both involve the cold-blooded murder of innocent human beings - in Omagh or Baghdad.

not quite
author by nolympicspublication date Sat Mar 08, 2003 23:43author address author phone

i dont recall the provos ever wheeling out morality as a legitimation for their campaigns. I think their claim to legitimacy would derive from a political point about self determination and anti colonialism. the brits on the other hand have recently started to talk about the moral justifications for the war, it was argument number seven i think that blair has used, bush of course is never shy about invoking his conversations with god about it. and are you talking about republicans in general, or provos or realos or continuity because i think omagh was the work of one of the splinters. now eniskillen might be a stronger example for you to take. but even eniskillen wont make your moral arguments against the murder of innocents more forceful without a clear political critique of terror, of which by the way there are many.

Fecking hippys
author by gfgfpublication date Sun Mar 09, 2003 14:08author address author phone

Fecking hippys

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