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Ahern will not meet US anti-war campaigner [Cindy does Ireland]
ireland.com ^ | December 12, 2005 | Unsigned

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


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1 posted on 12/14/2005 7:14:13 AM PST by aculeus
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To: aculeus

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.


2 posted on 12/14/2005 7:20:59 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: aculeus
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".


3 posted on 12/14/2005 7:23:03 AM PST by oldleft
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To: aculeus
he could not meet with Ms Sheehan due to prior diary commitments

Bertie remembered his tie-rack was due to be re-sorted.

4 posted on 12/14/2005 7:23:19 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Happygal

Maybe you can fix Cindy up with Simon (pub owner).


5 posted on 12/14/2005 7:25:26 AM PST by jla
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To: aculeus
Cindy loves Irish Pubs:


6 posted on 12/14/2005 7:27:04 AM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: aculeus
I wish Cindy would go to Iraq and get kidnapped by terrorists and get to make a video with them. I know that's not very nice, but it's all I want to the secular holiday season.

(Not for Christmas of course, because that would be un-Christian of me. But it's OK for HannahKwanzaRamalamadingdongWinterSolsticeFestivus season.)

7 posted on 12/14/2005 7:27:11 AM PST by Kenton (To my friends who celebrate Jesus' birth, Merry Christmas. To the rest of you, have a nice day off.)
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To: aculeus

If Cindy wants to go to Ireland, I will pay for the ticket.

One-way, of course.


8 posted on 12/14/2005 7:29:37 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Long live the Lizard King)
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To: aculeus

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?


9 posted on 12/14/2005 7:37:58 AM PST by jim35 (Casey Sheehan is spinning in his grave)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

Standing up for the Irish people, I have to say I'm against that idea. Send her to Gitmo.


10 posted on 12/14/2005 7:45:46 AM PST by Landry Fan (Merry Christmas!)
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To: aculeus

To even give that ghoulish bi+ch the time of day makes me hurl!


11 posted on 12/14/2005 7:49:20 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: aculeus

Does she have to turn in her frequent flier miles to Moveon.org?


12 posted on 12/14/2005 7:53:48 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: aculeus

Seems no matter how far I go, I can't get away from this woman.


13 posted on 12/14/2005 7:58:54 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Ahern-does-something-right-ping.


14 posted on 12/14/2005 8:10:34 AM PST by aculeus
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To: jla

Haha! They'd be well matched alright! ;-)


15 posted on 12/14/2005 10:09:03 AM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: add925; Sam Hill; kcvl; Mo1; Shermy

ROFLMAO! That is HILARIOUS!


16 posted on 12/14/2005 10:09:57 AM PST by Howlin
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To: aculeus
Ahern-does-something-right-ping.

Thanks for the ping, aculeus.

God help us, Cindy has disgraced our our shores with her presence.

17 posted on 12/14/2005 1:37:41 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: oldleft

Unfortunately, no. Ahern is a waffler.


18 posted on 12/14/2005 1:38:47 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; col kurz; ..

Ping.


19 posted on 12/14/2005 1:39:36 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: L98Fiero
"Plus, she's butt-ugly."

I'm afraid to say it -- you're insulting butts everywhere.

20 posted on 12/14/2005 1:42:39 PM PST by chs68
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