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kate
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/15/sisters.us.ap/
| Quote: | McCartney sisters arrive in U.S.
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the sisters, who have been invited to the White House for St. Patrick's Day, clashed with Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked party that has been barred from this year's event.
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is also on a weeklong trip to the United States, where for the first time in a decade he's not allowed to raise funds or to attend official political functions on St. Patrick's Day. |
W must have really put the word out, read elsewhere that even Teddy won't be meeting with Adams this trip
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kate
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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from one of my favorites Mark Steyn
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn131.html
| Quote: | These Irish eyes are smiling at White House snub of IRA March 13, 2005
Happy St. Patrick's Day to my fellow hyphenated Irishmen. And the good news about this St. Paddy's Day is that for the first time in a decade the official observances will not be disfigured by the presence at the White House of Gerry Adams.
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Depravity-wise, what exactly is the difference between McCartney's murder and the lynching of the four U.S. contractors in Fallujah? None -- except that the organization responsible for the former has enjoyed a decade of White House photo-ops.
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Bob51
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| kate wrote: | from one of my favorites Mark Steyn
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Kate, Many thanks for pointing to this. Quite excellent and should be read by everyone.
| Quote: | For the last 3-1/2 years one of the most persistent streams of correspondence I've had is from British readers sneering, ''Oh-ho. So America's now waging a war on 'terror,' is she? Well, where were the bloody Yanks the last 30 years? Passing round the collection box for IRA donations in the bars of Boston and New York, that's where.''
They have a point. Blowing up grannies and schoolkids at bus stops is always wrong, and the misty shamrock-hued sentimentalization of it in this particular manifestation speaks poorly for America, the principal source for decades of IRA funding. |
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