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| Coalition leaders to meet in UK |
| 2003-04-05 |
| The US president, George Bush, is to visit Northern Ireland next week to discuss the situation in Iraq, Downing Street announced last night. Mr Bush will meet the prime minister, Tony Blair, at an undisclosed location on Monday and Tuesday to assess the progress of the military campaign, plans for the future of a post-Saddam Iraq and |
| Posted by:Steve White |
#6 In the words of the inimitable Fats Waller:"One never does know, do one?";o) |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-04-05 20:54:22 |
| #5 Are you sure Rantburg did it? Or was it a vast conspiracy on html tags? The truth is out there ©¿© |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-05 19:15:21 |
| #4 Darn... Rantburg stripped my [tinfoil hat] [/tinfoil hat] tags off the last paragraph. (whines) But it worked in preview! |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-04-05 17:52:58 |
| #3 That's an interesting point, 'someone.' Why Northern Ireland? If Blair & Bush wanted an "undisclosed location" for comparing notes, there would seem to be plenty of stately homes/conference centers within England that would seem to combine better access with sufficient security. A Northern Ireland venue could set the stage for a "never happened" meeting between Bush and IRA representatives in which the IRA gets told that "we know what you've been up to (in South America, for example), and if you don't knock it off we'll do to you what we're doing to Al-Quaida. And don't count on Ted Kennedy or John Kerry to bail you out." Or is British intelligence's assessment of the terror capabilities of England's resident islamists sufficiently worrying that the IRA seems managable by comparison? |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2003-04-05 17:43:51 |
| #2 If they issue a "screw the IRA" declaration they ought to include the Provos too. Whether the six counties of Northern Ireland remain in the UK or eventually join the Irish Republic should be decided by the people who live there and not undully influenced by any organization using or advocating terrorist tactics |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-04-05 17:24:58 |
| #1 Too much to hope for a "screw the IRA" declaration on the side, I guess? |
| Posted by: someone 2003-04-05 02:00:32 |