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Boycott St. Patrick's Day party---McCann

Eamonn Cann, Socialist Environmental Alliance candidate in Foyle at "Make Guantanamo History" event in the Roddy McCorley Club in west Belfast, Saturday night, February 24th

Sunday 25th February 2007

I am told that after the election, parties with a mandate to form an Executive will be invited to the United States. The idea is that the final implementation of the St. Andrews Agreement will be negotiated over the St. Patrick's Day weekend, under the sponsorship of George Bush at the White House.

It would be shameful if any party claiming to be against Bush's foreign policy were to accept such an invite. It would be grotesque to allow George Bush to be pictured as a peace-maker in relation to Northern Ireland while he continues to inflict death and destruction on anyone who stands in his way in the Middle East.

To party with Bush in the White House on St. Patrick's Day would be to slap the Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese victims of US and US-supported aggression in the face.

I urge members of local parties to tell their leaders to stay out of George Bush's White House this Patrick's Day.





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