amBush 2004 (1 Viewer)

[broken arm]

right everyone knows the about the protests .

7pm Assemble Garden of Remembrance Parnell Sq, Dublin contact 086 1523542

REGIONAL DEMOS;​

7pm Galway- Assemble at City Hall and then Father Burke Park -contact 086 8343667

7pm Waterford- Meet Red square, contact 0863274015

7pm Tralee- Assemble Brandon Hotel, contact 087 6176009

7pm Sligo- assemble Town Hall, contact 086 303 9787

7pm Shannon- assemble Shannon Town Centre Car Park opposite Extravision, March by Shannon Residants.

Saturday June 26th – Demonstration & March –

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9-10am Assemble Dromoland Castle, Co Clare, followed by a march to Shannon

(To book buses to Dromoland phone: 086 1523542/087 6187680)

Stop Bush Protests are supported by the Irish Anti War Movement, the Peace and Neutrality Alliance, the NGO Peace Alliance (incorporating over 40 NGO’s), SIPTU, ATGWU, CPSU, USI, The Labour Party, The Green Party, Sinn Fein, The Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and many others.

but how about some banners. try

"get the fuck out of my country"

or

Who would Jesus bomb?

War begins with 'Dubya'.

Bush is proof that empty warheads can be dangerous.

Let's bomb Texas, they have oil too.

How did our oil get under their sand?

If you can't pronounce it, don't bomb it.

bush is another name for cunt

Daddy, can I start the war now?

No George, I said Mac Attack.

Draft dodgers shouldn't start wars.

You don't have to like Bush to love America.

Bushes are for pissing on.

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld: the asses of evil.

$1 billion a day to kill people-what a bargain.

What's the difference between me & God?
He might forgive Bush, but I won't.

America, get out of the Bushes.

It's time to trim the Bush.

Empires fall.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind (Gandhi).

Impeach the squatters.

Mainstream white guys for peace.
(Sign held by three mainstream-looking white guys)

Let Exxon send their own troops.

Curious, George? -- get a clue.

There's a terrorist behind every Bush.

How many bodies per mile?

War is so 20th century!

9-11-01: 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis.

Don't waive your rights while waving your flag.

Drop Bush not bombs.

Fighting for peace is like f___ing for virginity.

Bush is to Christianity as Osama is to Islam.

War is not a family value.

Picture of the peace symbol: back by popular demand.

A picture of Bush with a red-stained upper lip:
Got blood?

A picture of Bush saying "Why should I care what the American people
think?
They didn't vote for me."

 

[pete]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an interview with Irish television ahead of a U.S.-EU summit, U.S. President George W. Bush defended his stance on Iraq and said the war has not incited terrorists.

Bush leaves Friday for Ireland, where he will meet with European Union leaders Saturday before heading to Turkey for a NATO summit. Ireland currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the EU.

In a sometimes combative interview with Irish television network RTE, Bush disputed the suggestion that the world is more dangerous with the focus on Iraq instead of Afghanistan and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

...
"And I do believe that the world is becoming a better place, absolutely."

Bush's comments came on a day where coordinated insurgent attacks in five Iraqi cities killed about 100 people, including civilians, Iraqi security service members and three U.S. troops.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/25/bush.irish.tv/index.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime.html

 

[Goodbye]

Off work with an injured knee...

Was looking for an excuse get off work and go and protest... but there was a flaw in my plan...

Give em hell whoever's there!

 

[pete]

Angry White House pulls RTE interview

THE White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush.

And it is believed the President's staff have now withdrawn from an exclusive interview which was to have been given to RTE this morning by First Lady Laura Bush.

It is understood that both RTE and the Department of Foreign Affairs were aware of the exclusive arrangement, scheduled for 11am today. However, when RTE put Ms Coleman's name forward as interviewer, they were told Mrs Bush would no longer be available.

The Irish Independent learned last night that the White House told Ms Coleman that she interrupted the president unnecessarily and was disrespectful.

She also received a call from the White House in which she was admonished for her tone.

And it emerged last night that presidential staff suggested to Ms Coleman as she went into the interview that she ask him a question on the outfit that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern wore to the G8 summit.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1205871&issue_id=11063

 

[pete]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil

"let me finish... let me finish...."

jesus.

 

[avernus]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil

"let me finish... let me finish...."

jesus.

well. that was pretty intense.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

What a prick...some White House bozos gave out to your wan for being disrespectful. What a joke. Hooray for democracy!

 

[avernus]

What a prick...some White House bozos gave out to your wan for being disrespectful. What a joke. Hooray for democracy!

fuck that. he's not our president! and if he was we'd give him hell!

 

[pete]

"One can only assume that if (Irish Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern is prepared to deploy tanks, he is also prepared to use them on the Irish people," said Roger Cole, chairman of the Peace & Neutrality Alliance protest group. "That is a disgrace."

Bush's visit has contrasted sharply with those of previous U.S. presidents who were warmly welcomed in Ireland -- particularly those with Irish roots.

John F. Kennedy was greeted with almost religious fervor in 1963, Ronald Reagan had a pub named after him in his ancestral village in Tipperary when he came in 1994 and thousands of well wishers greeted Bill Clinton when he came to Dublin.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/26/us.eu.protests.reut/index.html

 

[pete]

By midafternoon in Ireland, it was unclear how many demonstrators had blocked the road leading to Dromoland Castle. About 4,000 police and 2,000 soldiers -- one-third of the security forces in Ireland -- patrolled the security cordon around the leaders' meeting.

But in a symbolic victory over a president who prizes punctuality, anti-war protesters forced a 30-minute delay in Bush's news conference. The president had to wait while the White House press corps was driven in circles on double-decker buses because the road to the castle was choked with demonstrators.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/158214-5392-010.html

 

[pete]

The protesters marched from north Dublin to the south-side office of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, whose decision to keep Shannon available for Iraq-bound forces has angered many in this officially neutral nation.

"Good people of America," read one placard, "vote that son of a Bush out."

"If we don't speak out, our silence will be taken as consent," Dublin Mayor Andrew Montague told the crowd. "This president lied to the world about the reasons for invading Iraq."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040625_1636.html

 

[pete]

The interview led to a White House complaint to the Irish Embassy. Aides to the president afterwards told Ms Coleman that she interrupted the president unnecessarily and was disrespectful.

RTE, however, said it "totally stands over the conduct of the interview and Carole's journalism."

They were also very pleased with the national and international public response to the interview with several radio and TV stations asking to rebroadcast it.

An RTE spokeswoman said their Washington office had been told that the interview with Mrs Bush was not now going to happen. It had been arranged for 11am yesterday.

Ms Coleman was not making any official comment on the row but sources close to the broadcaster said she had been "shook up" by the incident. She had also argued that no formal agreement had been reached on the Laura Bush interview so the issue of it being cancelled did not arise.

On the way into the summit luncheon at Dromoland Castle, President Bush is understood to have raised the "snippy" interview in a light-hearted fashion.

An Irish Government spokesman said that "within Government there was an acknowledgement that the interview lacked respect."

Meanwhile, the interview was raised on the Larry King show on CNN, CBS, the New York Times where it was described as "contentious", and in other media.

RTE said it had received a good response from the public with 200,000 tuning in to watch the Prime Time interview which clashed with the England Euro 2004 game while another 300,000 watched it later that night on News 2.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1205976

 

[avernus]

did you by any chance read the rest of those sunday independent articles?
it was a heap of conservative anti-liberal bulshit - calling the protesters "vegetarians".

what an awful and awfully written newspaper.

 

[pete]

did you by any chance read the rest of those sunday independent articles?

I did indeed read them. I think the worst of them were written by the one person.


bleedin soap dodgers

 

[avernus]

bleedin soap dodgers

hehehe

 

[pete]

RTE Washington correspondent Carole Coleman has become the unlikely darling of the anti-war movement and the White House press corps following her controversial interview with President Bush last week.

Ms Coleman's interview on RTE's Primetime programme, broadcast on the eve of the President's visit on Thursday night, has generated mixed reactions here and abroad by pundits and viewers alike who either viewed her aggressive stance as brave and unflinching or rude and unprofessional.

But according to hundreds of viewers who logged on the anti-war/establishment IndyMedia website last night, many normally media-sceptic respondents congratulated Ms Coleman for pulling off a coup - rattling a media-shy politician who rarely speaks to reporters without a carefully rehearsed script.

According to one respondent, Ms Coleman should be praised for interrupting the president during the 11-minute interview.

"At what point does an interviewee stop answering the question and start making a pre-prepared speech? The interviewer is perfectly entitled to interrupt and request that the question that was asked is answered."

The Guardian also praised Ms Coleman's interview. "Some claim the summit was tailored to give Mr Bush a pre-election media-opportunity for the 50 million or so Irish folk back home. But RTE's Washington correspondent, Carole Coleman, was not about to let Mr Bush off the hook.

"In an interview broadcast on television and a radio breakfast show she persisted with questions about dead US soldiers, torture, the issue of making the world a more dangerous place, and being disliked," it read.

But where she scored the most points was within the White House press corps, according to Mary Finnegan, Ireland-based producer for CBS News and current affairs show 60 Minutes.

She said the White House media were not only impressed with Ms Coleman's no-holds-barred approach, but by the fact that RTE stood by her.

"The White House press corps was impressed and envious of her," she said.

Last night, meanwhile, a spokesperson said the Government - while receiving an official complaint from the US Embassy over the Bush interview - will not be forwarding the complaint to RTE executives at Donnybrook.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=39&si=1206419&issue_id=11065