Comments on: Burma’s Rulers Worse Than Saddam hussein

By: Collywobbles

Collywobbles — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:23:50 +0000

ok yes, go ahead bomb the bastards. I’m all for it. come on new Taoiseach, show us what you’re made of! make a stand on something that matters.

By: eliza

eliza — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:04:11 +0000

Bock “America stands for Freedom”…was dead funny.

We stand for Oil and Oppression, and the Almighty Dollar.

We stood for freedom two hundred years ago. Now we stand for Halliburton.

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:07:02 +0000

Complete with highly-convincing cartoon pictures of trucks.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:21:43 +0000

Where is Colin Powell when you need him to make a convincing speech about Weapons of Mass Destruction (now in Burma).

By: Darwin

Darwin — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55:48 +0000

Time magazine and CNN are up for it apparently.

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:47:36 +0000

Róisín: I have to call it somewhere before it gets out of hand.

Andrew: I think you’re missing the point as well.

Shannaboley : If the US invades these guys and deposes them, I’ll believe all their talk about freedom and democracy.

By: Shannaboley

Shannaboley — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:43:50 +0000

Ok, there are now three US Navy ships the” big ones” off the coast of Thialand.There is also a plane of vehicles somewhere sitting on a tarmac .Those ships come with there own helicopters and jets, hospitals yada yada.Us governement is calling for an immediate intervention by UN or by sunday they will impose a deadline and force aid on the regime. I thought it interesting that when the CNN reporter was giving his update, he mentioned that the US wanted to get the “humanitarian workers led as usual by a team of Irish specialists” his quote, in before sunday but its a holiday so there are no visa issued till after monday.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:25:40 +0000

That’s a big jump from ‘not being involved’ to ‘doing nothing.’ It’s just that Burma is not on my list of Get Involved Here !

My days of putting myself

on the line

are long over. If I’d been told 35 years ago that there would come a day when I would have to salute those who were fanning the sectarian flames in the North I wouldn’t have believed it.

By: roisin

roisin — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:44:04 +0000

Bock, I was responding to comments made by two other posters. I had earlier asked if, in the case of the UN gathering a proper international army, would Ireland be involved or would we prefer to do the usual thing of doing nothing while attributing all kinds of ulterior motives to those who would put themselves on the line?

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:51:51 +0000

Very interesting, Róisín, but not what this post is about.