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An insight into the true nature of George Bush’s s coalition of the willing

category international | anti-capitalism | other press author Friday September 22, 2006 13:15author by tm eile


According to this BBC report , after the events of 9/11 , US deputy Secretary of State ,Richard Armitage , threatened President Musharraf of Pakistan saying that his country would be bombed “back to the stone age” unless it backed George Bush’s War on Terror. The Pakistani dictator was surely not being over-sensitive when he described Armitage 's remarks as "very rude".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stm

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what threats have been made to ireland?
author by tom eilepublication date Fri Sep 22, 2006 14:24author address author phone

After the Feb 15 2003 demo ,Bertie Ahern issued a statement saying that, not only did he support the 150,000 marching that day ,but had he been in Dublin he would certainly have been on the march himself. I wonder whether the organizers of tomorrow's march have extended an invitation to Bertie to attend .
More seriously I would like to know whether threats have been made by the US administration to this country in order to keep Shannon open for troop movement and torture flights.

the implied threat is enough
author by redjadepublication date Fri Sep 22, 2006 14:34author address author phone

The implied threat is and always has been that the US would withdraw as a partner in solving the issues of Northern Ireland.

No Taoiseach wants to be the Taoiseach that 'lost' the United States.

A trade has been made - Ireland helps America make war in the Middle East and the America will be a 'partner for Peace' on the Irish island.

what a bargain
author by tom eilepublication date Fri Sep 22, 2006 14:39author address author phone

And what's more ,this way we get to host the Ryder Cup as well.

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