Breslin: Irish eyes won't smile when Bush pays visit

[kskiska]

(snip)

And she said, "I mean in June in Dublin. Can you imagine? They're bringing Bush over. That's when we start stamping our feet something fierce in front of the world. He'll have the whole country up from the ground protesting."

Bush goes to Dublin to speak at a meeting of European nations. The size of Ireland makes any corner of the country easy to reach by protesters. The Bush government has been discussing places for safe meetings in the empty west of Ireland. The people around Bush feel any unfriendly crowd is a frontal assault that requires the 10th Mountain Division to defend. The Bush people think that the west of Ireland will be friendly. They are that out of touch with Ireland. The people will go anywhere to protest against Bush and his war. A corner of Mayo, or Grafton Street in Dublin, are equally good. The mails in my office and house have been filled with notices of war protest marches coming up in New York. The murmur of New York runs all over the world.

The Irish Herald newspaper printed that Bush will have 700 people with him, and the American security people have asked for immunity for anybody who shoots and kills a protester. This could be a standard request, but it looks like hell to see it in print in Ireland.

Bush revels in crowds from these low IQ states who have at best an eight-grade reading level. All through long dark years of poverty, Ireland never gave upon the most stringent, classic education. And the country now might be the best read people on earth. This is American ignorance at its highest: Bush and Kerry in a he said, he said confrontation about Kerry's statement that a foreign leader likes him more than Bush. Bush said, in a classic statement, that nobody running for president should make a claim if he can't back it up with facts. Bush said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and talked of mushroom clouds. If he can back it up, the world could end.

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[roguevalley]

1. Go, IRELAND! Love you dearly. Don't hold him against us. He's probably

a Labradoran, or a Grecian. Maybe a Martian. Don't hold
him against us please. By the way, send me a couple of
bales of your soft white soda bread. I still dream about
it.

[dflprincess]

2. This will be a first

Has there ever been a major demonstration in Ireland against an American president?

Erin go bragh!