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Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: The White House has just removed from office its resident psychopath, Mr. Rumsfeld——

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and his predecessor have said over the past three years that as events developed in Iraq, they would keep it under review and we would——

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is in order for me to ask about debates that have been promised. There is an implied promise——

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——to have a debate as policy on Iraq changes.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: As the Bush regime has been subjected to shock and awe by the American electorate——

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Can we have an early debate——

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——on the changing situation in the United States, particularly its policy towards Iraq and its implications for the Government regarding whether it will continue to facilitate the Rumsfeld war machine, now that he has gone?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: What about a debate?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am asking for a debate on the issue.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will the Government draw meaningful conclusions from the drubbing received by American President George Bush and his party in the mid-term elections, which was, above all, a rejection by swelling numbers of ordinary Americans of the unspeakable barbarities unleashed on the Iraqi people by the imperialist invasion of their country? Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, men, women and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: He allowed the commander-in-chief, President Bush, to parade in Shannon with his troops. Now that the American people have rejected the bloody carnage that Mr. Bush and his neo-conservative cabal have inflicted on the people of Iraq, will the Irish Government implement the wish of the Irish people and withdraw forthwith its facilitation of, and de facto support for, the Bush war machine at...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am speechless.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is a contemptible response——

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——from an Irish Government when the entire world is today talking about the profound meaning of the outcome of the mid-term elections in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a radical, revolutionary or socialist alternative to the Republican Party but that is not the point. The point is that the vote amounts to a massive rejection of the atrocities that the Bush regime has...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——facilitated by the Government of which Mr. Cowen is a Minister. If he was convinced that the support he continues to give to American troops was right he would speak for more than ten seconds to explain to the Irish people why he defies their wishes.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: This morning innocent Palestinian people were massacred in the village of Beit Hanoun by the Israeli defence forces, carrying all the hallmarks of the Rumsfeld-Bush shock and awe tactics. It was a further devastation of the peoples of the Middle East as a result of their interference, which has been supported at all stages by the Minister. Does the Minister agree with the majority of the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: Will he continue with the same subservient policy to the Bush and Blair regimes in support of their agenda, which has nothing to do with world peace or the welfare of the peoples of the Middle East? We should not be surprised he supports them when the Government follows their neo-liberal capitalist policies such as privatising our public industries. The Minister must do better and show...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: That is another easy diversion. What does he mean by anti-Americanism? Do I hate the Rocky Mountains? Do I hate the Great Lakes?

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Minister shows the Irish people contempt.