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Peace campaigners converge on Belfast war summit
Comes as a surprise, doesn't it? Oh. It doesn't...
Thousands of screaming children peace campaigners descended on Belfast Monday to protest the two-day war summit being held between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush. The Irish Anti-War Movement said it expected 5,000 beauzeaux of its members to attend the demonstration at Hillsborough Castle, on the outskirts of Belfast, along with thousands of others traveling from England and Scotland in their never-ending quest to get laid by hippies. Bush and Blair were holding their third war summit in the Irish capital in three weeks.

Opposition politicians, union leaders and other anti-war groups have accused both leaders of hypocrisy over their plans to hold peace talks on Northern Ireland, while plotting their military strategy in Iraq. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, one of the organizers of the protest, said that Blair and Bush "knew no shame in holding a war summit in a city racked by conflict and struggling for peace."
Perhaps Northern Ireland will be lucky and we'll invade it...

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, who was due to meet the US president with other local political leaders, described the war summit as insensitive, but refused to boycott the visit. Mainstream SDLP leader Mark Durkan also publicly opposed the war in Iraq and expressed his unhappiness over the government offices at Hillsborough Castle being used for the further prosecution of military action.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-07
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