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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (97311)	3/8/2005 3:49:10 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't want to talk about Mussolini or FDR right now. Someone who knows more about fascism and the New Deal should really debate you about that. I don't think they are very similar. Perhaps you could articulate the similarites, so someone can rip your argument apart! Anyway, St. Patrick's Day approaches, and I want to talk about Sinn Fein. Bush is equating Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to Arafat! Bush turns back on Sinn Fein March 09, 2005 THE sisters and the fiancee of a Catholic man said to have been murdered by the IRA will be feted by George W.Bush in the White House on St Patrick's Day as part of a US strategy to isolate Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. Paula McCartney and her four sisters, as well as Bridgeen Hagans, who was to have married Robert McCartney in a few months, will fly from Belfast to Washington on March 15 to highlight their campaign to bring his killers to justice. While there was no confirmation last night, it is understood an invitation from the White House has been accepted and will be announced later this week. The invitation is a powerful political message from the US President, whose aides announced last week that, for the first time since 1995, Sinn Fein and the other Irish parties would not be invited to the White House for St Patrick's Day, the most important day in the Irish-American calendar. Mr Adams and Martin McGuinness, named by the Irish Government as members of the Provisional IRA's ruling army council, will be in the US for the occasion, but administration officials have told The Times that Mr Bush no longer believes either man can be trusted. The change comes as Sinn Fein is mired in scandal over Britain's largest bank robbery, which has been attributed to the IRA by the British and Irish governments, as well as by the police forces north and south of the Irish border. McCartney's killing in a Belfast pub brawl on January 30 has provoked widespread condemnation. The White House has also been angered by the IRA's refusal to allow photographic evidence of disarmament moves. Paula McCartney said yesterday: "We're absolutely delighted. We do believe there's a very strong possibility we will be there and we welcome it. We are going to use it to the best of our advantage. Our message will be to highlight the murder of our brother, Robert." Asked what they would say to Mr Bush if they met him, she said: "We will be asking him to support us in our campaign for justice for Robert and for Ireland." A Bush administration official confirmed that the White House was eager to host the McCartney sisters on St Patrick's Day. The President is said to be exasperated by events in Northern Ireland. One aide even talked about Mr Adams in the terms of disdain that the White House held for former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Just as the President labelled Arafat not a partner for peace, the same now goes for Adams. The President does not want to meet with him," the aide said. During Sinn Fein's annual conference in Dublin at the weekend, Mr Adams acknowledged that he knew several of the seven Sinn Fein members suspended from the party in connection with the murder. In an attempt to distance Sinn Fein from the murder and to defuse the condemnation following it, Mr Adams invited the McCartney sisters to the party conference, where he denounced the killers. "They should admit what they did in a court of law," he said. The Times theaustralian.news.com.au