Posted on 12/14/2005 7:14:13 AM PST by aculeus
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will not meet prominent US anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan.
Ms Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, had requested a meeting to call on him to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military.
But the Taoiseach's office this afternoon told ireland.comthat he could not meet with Ms Sheehan due to prior diary commitments but that he had forwarded her correspondence to the Department of Foreign Affairs for "appropriate reply".
Ms Sheehan, whose 24-year-old army specialist son was killed in April 2004, caused controversy and made international headlines this summer after she set up permanent camp outside the Texas ranch of President Bush to protest over her son's death .
The protest proved to be something of a public relations coup for the anti-war movement and galvanised national support for her cause, although she was also the subject of fierce criticism from conservative commentators and even her own in-laws.
Ms Sheehan will meet with a number of TDs and senators outside the Dáil tomorrow afternoon, including Green Party spokesman on foreign affairs John Gormley, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Féin and Senator David Norris.
She will also speak at a public meeting in Belvedere College at 8pm that night, when she will be joined by Rose Gentle, the mother of British soldier killed in Iraq, and Iraqi anti-war activists Tahrir Swift and Raeid Al Wazzan.
Eircom.Net
Nobody is going to be able to make believe that going to forigen shores and attempting to shut down US military operation in wartime is not treason.
Plus, she's butt-ugly.
Bertie remembered his tie-rack was due to be re-sorted.
Maybe you can fix Cindy up with Simon (pub owner).
(Not for Christmas of course, because that would be un-Christian of me. But it's OK for HannahKwanzaRamalamadingdongWinterSolsticeFestivus season.)
If Cindy wants to go to Ireland, I will pay for the ticket.
One-way, of course.
Do you suppose that any American traitor will EVER be arrested for treason, for any reason? What the he!! does it take before these enemies of America are put away?
Standing up for the Irish people, I have to say I'm against that idea. Send her to Gitmo.
To even give that ghoulish bi+ch the time of day makes me hurl!
Does she have to turn in her frequent flier miles to Moveon.org?
Seems no matter how far I go, I can't get away from this woman.
Ahern-does-something-right-ping.
Haha! They'd be well matched alright! ;-)
ROFLMAO! That is HILARIOUS!
Thanks for the ping, aculeus.
God help us, Cindy has disgraced our our shores with her presence.
Unfortunately, no. Ahern is a waffler.
Ping.
I'm afraid to say it -- you're insulting butts everywhere.
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