From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:19:15 +0100 To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] IRSP: Neutrality Statement Dublin IRSP Neutrality Statement ======================= No to American Crusade - Defend Ireland's Neutrality ------------------------------------------------------- Following the slaughter in New York and Washington the American administration now seeks to build a 'coalition against terrorism' essentially, a by word for the prosecution of war against the innocent peoples of Afghanistan and the Middle East, and central to the building of this 'coalition' has been the need to acquire support from the puppet governments of both Britain and Ireland. Within days of September 11th both went on record supporting without qualification the American cause. Ireland is supposed to be a neutral country, but yet here we are siding with America, a country which has reaped terrible reward as a result of decades of misguided foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. We recall the American inspired slaughter in Lebanon, her support for Israeli tyranny against the Palestinian people, the sanctions inspired by America against Iraq since the Gulf war, sanctions which have so far cost the lives of a million Iraqi children, not to mention the bombing of Serbia orchestrated by NATO. Despite this record of terror no-one in government circles in Ireland uttered one word of condemnation against these unjust American actions! The people of Afghanistan may prove the latest target for American revenge. Are we in Ireland now expected to support the wholesale slaughter of these oppressed people so Bush, his White House staff and the American lap-dog Tony Blair can be seen to have done something? It certainly seems that we are given the disposition of our government. We have a situation now in Ireland where British planes regularly patrol the nation's airspace and American troop planes land in Shannon and Knock airports, but yet we are supposed to be a neutral country. We call for an end to these flagrant breaches of our neutral status at the behest of a puppet government in Leinster House. We call for America to ponder why such a terrible deed was inflicted against her as a means to explore a solution, as opposed to the prosecution of an unjust war. American terror, such as that witnessed in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Serbia, as much as that of any other variety must be eradicated.
