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01-06-2006 4:32pm#1:mad: OK what about this then
Just after the 1916 shindig in Dublin with all our politicians almost weeping
thinking about the anti-imperialist sacrafice our rebels made against the British Empire...the RAF will fly over the skies of Salthill :mad:
and not only that some of the pilots that will be flying over, have just returned from Iraq flying over the heads of the people of Basra and the local community :eek:
whatever you think about war/republicans/anti war types etc is this not just hypocritical
see http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76380
Brit War Vets To "Perform" at War Show
Today’s Daily Ireland (Thursday 1st June 2006) has produced evidence that there is a direct link between the war in Iraq and the Salthill Air Show. According to the new national daily 4 pilots involved in the British RAF helicopter Merlin display team served in Iraq. At this year's Air Show the Merlin Team will be one of the "highlights".
The article written by Daily Ireland’s Dublin correspondent, David Lynch, states: “The official 'Team Merlin' website and RAF press release outlines the military biographies of the team members. The display pilot has been deployed in Iraq. The display co-pilot "has recently completed operational tours in Iraq". Another display co-pilot has "just completed his third tour in Iraq". And finally the Team Merlin display lead crewman has recently been "on Op Telic in Iraq". Operation Telic is the British military codename for its role in the US led 2003 invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. According to RAF information four of the five members of Team Merlin, have served in Iraq. The fifth, the display manager, spent ‘4 years on the Puma helicopter with the 230 Squadron in Northern Ireland’.”
The Galway Alliance Against War has called on both Galway City Council and Ireland West Tourism to withdraw funding to the air show. The peace group’s PRO, Niall Farrell, told us: “The organisers of this war show try to pass it off as harmless entertainment. But now we not only have the killing machines but the original pilots, not circus artistes, flying them. Galway City Council and Ireland West Tourism must distance themselves from this obscenity by withdrawing funding. These pilots have been involved in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq; they have been involved in an unnecessary war that has taken the lives of over 200,000 people. By their very involvement in this illegal war they are British war criminals and they should be banned from our skies and our land.”0
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Ohyeah wrote::mad: OK what about this then
Just after the 1916 shindig in Dublin with all our politicians almost weeping thinking about the anti-imperialist sacrafice our rebels made against the British Empire...the RAF will fly over the skies of Salthill :mad:
and not only that some of the pilots that will be flying over, have just returned from Iraq flying over the heads of the people of Basra and the local community :eek:
whatever you think about war/republicans/anti war types etc is this not just hypocritical
see http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76380
Brit War Vets To "Perform" at War Show
Today’s Daily Ireland (Thursday 1st June 2006) has produced evidence that there is a direct link between the war in Iraq and the Salthill Air Show. According to the new national daily 4 pilots involved in the British RAF helicopter Merlin display team served in Iraq. At this year's Air Show the Merlin Team will be one of the "highlights".
The article written by Daily Ireland’s Dublin correspondent, David Lynch, states: “The official 'Team Merlin' website and RAF press release outlines the military biographies of the team members. The display pilot has been deployed in Iraq. The display co-pilot "has recently completed operational tours in Iraq". Another display co-pilot has "just completed his third tour in Iraq". And finally the Team Merlin display lead crewman has recently been "on Op Telic in Iraq". Operation Telic is the British military codename for its role in the US led 2003 invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq. According to RAF information four of the five members of Team Merlin, have served in Iraq. The fifth, the display manager, spent ‘4 years on the Puma helicopter with the 230 Squadron in Northern Ireland’.”
The Galway Alliance Against War has called on both Galway City Council and Ireland West Tourism to withdraw funding to the air show. The peace group’s PRO, Niall Farrell, told us: “The organisers of this war show try to pass it off as harmless entertainment. But now we not only have the killing machines but the original pilots, not circus artistes, flying them. Galway City Council and Ireland West Tourism must distance themselves from this obscenity by withdrawing funding. These pilots have been involved in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq; they have been involved in an unnecessary war that has taken the lives of over 200,000 people. By their very involvement in this illegal war they are British war criminals and they should be banned from our skies and our land.”
The only problem I see here is that Merlin helicopters aren't very interesting, send over some Tornados and Eurofighters. Now that I would pay to see.0 -
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Not again!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=170874&highlight=salthill+airshow
Here's hoping they drop a stray one on the right target, you can usually smell them from 10,000 feet.
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There's also one in "there's".TempestSabre wrote:Theres a ' in don't, and you've butchered doesn't....:D 0 -
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