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Urgent action Needed to Stop Irish Military Action In Chad

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday November 19, 2007 10:19author by Malcolm Report this post to the editors

Irish neutrality in imminent danger as it joins the "War on Terror"

Lieutenant General Dermot Earley the gung-ho ex-Ranger and commander of the Irish military must be licking his lips!

The Minister for Foreign Affairs says he expects a Government decision to be made on Tuesday over the deployment of up to four hundred Irish troops in eastern Chad.

Dermot Ahern has just returned from a four day visit to Sudan and Chad, during which he met with Government leaders as well as aid workers and local people.

If the Government gives its go-ahead for the mission the Dáil will then have to give its approval.

A gung-ho military bored with guarding armoured money vans wants to get its hands dirty in a nasty imperialist war in Africa.

The war in Darfur has been ongoing for a number of years now and has begun to spill over into Chad.

The mainstream media wants to paint the conflict as a civil war between the Khartoum and various rebel groups.

But this conflict has a much larger global sweep.

The Chinese government openly supports the Khartoum government in return for cheap oil.

The governments of Saudi Arabia, Syria and other Arab countries support the Islamic fundementalist Arab of Khartoum government in its ethnic genocidal war against the African population of Darfur.

Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda have provided jihadists fighters and weapons training to the Janjiweed, a home grown Taliban-like movement that operates in Darfur.

Sudan and Somalia were destined to become training centres for the jihadist movement much as pre-9/11 Afghanistan was.

After defeat in Somalia by the US backed Ethiopian invasion Al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement has maintained its presence in Sudan.

Ireland has given material support to the US wars of Afghanistan and Iraq by providing facilities at Shannon.

Now (under the fig leaf of UN approval) Ireland along with other nations are to open a new front in Chad against Chinese imperialist expansion and Islamic fundementalism supposedly to protect ethnic Africans but for the real objectives of securing Western oil supplies.

Oil is now almost $100 a barrel.

We have already witnessed Irish troops were sent to Lebanon ostensively on a peace keeping mission but infact to quell the Hezbollah insurgency in support of Israeli military objectives.

Now Irish troops will be sent fight the Janjiweed.

Irish troops will face the same threat from Islamic insurgency in Chad as the US military have foolishly brought upon themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ireland is evidently a softer target that the United States from Islamic terrorist attacks.

Do the Irish people want to risk provoking attacks from terrorists because we are joining a war which is not our fight?

Do the Irish people want to get involved in the imperial US led Western war against the Islamic imperialists?

Do the Irish people want our soldiers to be cannon fodder so that the Western imperialists can deny Chinese imperialists oil resources in an arm wrestle for control of oil rich Sudan?

Do the Irish people want Irish troops to commit war crimes against the civilians of Chad and Sudan - the deaths of civilians are the inevitable consequences of military action.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Why has this passed under the radar of the Irish Anti War Movement?     Meadbh    Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:55 
   solution     Max    Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:10 
   Re: Max     Malcolm    Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:44 
   Short Answer to Meadbh     MichaelY    Mon Nov 19, 2007 16:30 
   Chad     Sceptic    Tue Nov 20, 2007 22:43 
   Don't be conned by so-called "humanitarian interventions"     Malcolm    Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:22 
   chad     martin lacey    Wed Nov 21, 2007 17:37 
   UN Mission to Chad     Alex Higgins    Wed Nov 21, 2007 20:27 
   We've heard the same before     Malcom    Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:44 
 10   So do what exactly??     Charles B.    Thu Nov 22, 2007 13:59 
 11   Re: Charles B     Malcolm    Thu Nov 22, 2007 14:39 
 12   Quack Quack Quack     Dawn    Thu Nov 22, 2007 22:40 
 13   Irish UN peacekeepers     patriotic constitutionalist    Fri Nov 23, 2007 00:51 
 14   Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel     Malcolm    Fri Nov 23, 2007 09:30 
 15   Re:by Malcolm     sideshowmel    Fri Nov 23, 2007 23:37 
 16   Humanitarian peacekeeping     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 00:22 
 17   Re: Sideshowmel     Malcolm    Sat Nov 24, 2007 08:21 
 18   UN membership symbolises independence     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 09:08 
 19   roll of honour     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:55 
 20   chad     martin lacey    Sat Nov 24, 2007 20:38 
 21   Hardly taking sides.     Beside the fence not on it    Sun Nov 25, 2007 15:25 
 22   Macho showoff     Pacifist    Mon Nov 26, 2007 09:16 
 23   peacekeeping different from pacifism     patriot constitutionalist    Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:58 
 24   Ireland's imperialist partner France jet-bombings forcing CAR refugees INTO Darfur     pseud    Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:49 
 25   Re: Pacifist     sideshowmel    Mon Nov 26, 2007 14:47 
 26   Bully for you Malcolm....     Charles B.    Mon Nov 26, 2007 15:07 
 27   But at what price?     Malcolm    Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:16 
 28   Necessary evil     Beside the fence not on it    Tue Nov 27, 2007 23:42 
 29   Re: Malcolm     sideshowmel    Tue Nov 27, 2007 23:43 
 30   Reread what I said     Beside the fence not on it    Wed Nov 28, 2007 00:27 
 31   Ignore my last post     Beside the fence not on it    Wed Nov 28, 2007 00:29 
 32   Dermot Early     Wisdo    Sun Dec 02, 2007 23:18 
 33   chad     john    Fri Dec 14, 2007 23:19 
 34   ireland     Ryan    Thu Jan 17, 2008 00:46 
 35   if it's reality you want     FrenchImperialism    Fri Jan 18, 2008 17:44 
 36   Eh, Sorry?     Steve    Tue Jan 22, 2008 20:20 
 37   chad     martin lacey    Wed Jan 23, 2008 14:49 
 38   looks like we arent going in.     A10    Sun Feb 03, 2008 17:02 
 39   What is this bullshit?     Seantóir    Mon Feb 04, 2008 03:36 
 40   Instead of hot air and accusations pls look at the facts     MichaelY    Mon Feb 04, 2008 08:20 
 41   Chad and honeymoons     sarko    Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:29 
 42   Rebels have accepted ceasefire & accuse French of killing civilians.     hmmmmmmmmm    Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:01 
 43   Signal     Histrybuff    Tue Feb 05, 2008 16:43 
 44   Irish Defence Forces deployment to Chad     kevin    Tue Feb 05, 2008 17:08 
 45   Fuck this     Trevor    Fri Feb 08, 2008 16:06 
 46   If only this were for Ireland     Cael    Fri Feb 08, 2008 17:01 
 47   our commitment to peacekeeping     patriotic constitutionalist    Sat Feb 09, 2008 00:43 
 48   sarkozy seems intent on copperfastening his 'interests'     second that    Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:13 
 49   madness     Ceann    Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:38 
 50   To selfish Cael who obviously doesnt care about helping others     Des    Sat Feb 09, 2008 14:48 
 51   chad     martin    Sat Feb 09, 2008 21:16 
 52   God help us!     Cael    Sun Feb 10, 2008 16:54 
 53   Standing Idly By     Cael    Sun Feb 10, 2008 17:16 
 54   chad     marin    Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:07 
 55   Óglaigh na 26?     Cael    Mon Feb 11, 2008 18:24 
 56   life of the army     K Rambo    Tue Apr 01, 2008 01:14 
 57   evident problem with indymedia     whyshouldi    Sun Apr 06, 2008 03:28 
 58   Irish Troops Out of Chad     Darren C    Tue Jul 15, 2008 16:30 
 59   Unbiased     Rory379    Fri Jan 09, 2009 03:42 
 60   In response to some articles     Rory379    Fri Jan 09, 2009 04:03 
 61   fair comment rory- you're obviously a very wise man     1094123    Fri Jan 09, 2009 22:25 
 62   Are you still deluded?     Interested    Tue Sep 22, 2009 00:29 
 63   Don't flatter yourself.     Democrat.    Tue Sep 22, 2009 07:31 
 64   Another constructive waste of time     Interested    Tue Sep 22, 2009 23:42 
 65   My confusion.     Democrat.    Wed Sep 23, 2009 18:16 
 66   Mathematical Precision....     From Copenhagen.    Wed Sep 23, 2009 18:42 


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