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Fianna Fail Granny, Warmonger,Hypocrite

category national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday June 30, 2008 10:30author by paul o tooleauthor email pauljotoole at eircom dot net Report this post to the editors

More hypocracy from the Fianna Fail, PD and now the New Green Party

Fianna Fails Mary O'Rourke calls for the assasination of Robert Mugabe. Only last week the Queen 'stripped him' of his knighthood (ouch), so I suppose she is just showing the Queen that she can talk tough also.
Morgan tsvangirai, 'preferred' president and friend of the west, now hiding in a Duch Embassy pleading for his fellow countrymen to vote lest they be shot or tortured, is backed by all western governments who will decry the election....why?
One thing, he will reverse Mugabe's programme of removing ex-colonial, mainly British, white farmers from Zimbabwe's land. 4,700 so far have been removed forcefully. If this succeeds, and it looked like it might have, this removes the white stronghold of real power in Zimbabwe. Land ownership and two party statehood for electible western supported candidates would suit the west very much to continnue control of internal resources and international affairs in Zimbabwe.

Calling for Mugabe's assisanation as Mary O Rourkes statement to 'shoot him' is a bit rich comming from a Fianna Failer.
A minority FF government propped up with a few independents and minor parties masquerading in public as a force to be rekoned with without any real direction other than privatising everything that this country is worth-is one thing. Sticking its long thick neck out into the big international bad world and calling for assasinations to be enacted is what we say about Ireland 'punching above its weight'. Big Talk from tough people like Bush and Blair now ORourke, bet not one of them lost a nights sleep for all the killing they've instigated
The irony, and the double ironies are laughable...if it wasnt so sick
With the help of Mary O'Rourkes signature and without UN approval-stopovers and re-fuelling for the US military was made possible with the murder of more than 1 milliom so far and a country destroyed......Then when they found the guy they were looking for.... Dermot Aherne asked for Sadam Hussein 'to be spared the death penalty'-
..in light of all the beef that Sadam bought from Fianna Fails Friends under Haughey while carrying out his reign of terror and torture, I suppose it was a fitting gesture of our minister of Forigen Affairs to ask for his life to be spared
They oppose the alleged torture of Zimbabwes citizens when western media bombards the headlines with the zimbabwean election fiasco- yet we allow rendition flights through Shannon and not a single word to the proper about any system to ensure this does not happen, thereby supporting the US policy of torturing human beings- a disgrace we as a country will never recover from.

We agree to banning cluster bombs manufacture, transport and use. Michael Martin said it was a firm step foreward in the fight to ban cluster bombs...yet, we make the triggers for them in Galway, we transport them through Shannon and we support their use because we facilitate their manufacture, transportation and their use on Iraqi, Lebaneese and Afgaani civilians.

I'll stop here, you get the picture.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   The Queen?     CorkHurler    Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:48 
   I think shooting Mugabe is an excellent idea     Jim    Mon Jun 30, 2008 13:17 
   Democracy     ZANU FF    Mon Jun 30, 2008 14:40 
   Lets hear him...     paul o toole    Mon Jun 30, 2008 15:58 
   Re: Zanu FF & Paul O'Toole     Jim    Mon Jun 30, 2008 17:19 
   democracy is democracy     zanu ff    Mon Jun 30, 2008 17:31 
   she's always looked like gaddafi     bla    Mon Jun 30, 2008 20:07 
   Don't knock Gaddaffi     Jim    Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:39 
   Jim....     SauceForTheGoose    Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:47 
 10   A bit of focus please     Sean    Tue Jul 01, 2008 23:41 
 11   True     paul o toole    Wed Jul 02, 2008 09:55 
 12   Who's behind Tsvangirai?     Hugh Briss    Wed Jul 02, 2008 19:03 
 13   Typical bleeding heart sheep     Hugh Briss    Wed Jul 02, 2008 19:17 
 14   yep     paul o toole    Wed Jul 02, 2008 19:28 
 15   not just colour     lulu    Thu Jul 03, 2008 18:34 
 16   Well I heard . . .     Hugh Briss    Fri Jul 04, 2008 17:22 
 17   moronic Mugabe sympathisers     JAMES WA LSH    Sat Jul 05, 2008 19:38 
 18   Dear James,     Hugh Briss    Sat Jul 05, 2008 21:56 
 19   Zimbabwe, a no-win situation?     Hugh Briss    Sat Jul 05, 2008 22:29 
 20   James... wake up and smell the coffee     OurLeadersAreLizardScum    Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:47 
 21   Mugabe     Joe clarke    Thu Jul 10, 2008 18:57 
 22   Hypocrites???     Coolock 5    Thu Jul 10, 2008 20:36 


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