Time for Full and Final Withdrawal from Ireland and Middle-East

international | miscellaneous | press release Wednesday December 17, 2008 15:30 by Richard Walsh - Republican Sinn Féin tiocfaidh at btinternet dot com +44-7835 620 592 / +353-87 261 8603

The announcement of a scaling-back to Britain's six year occupation of southern Iraq is in stark contrast to the announcement that 5,000 British soldiers will remain permanently garrisoned in occupied Ireland, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.

The announcement of a scaling-back to Britain's six year occupation of southern Iraq is in stark contrast to the announcement that 5,000 British soldiers will remain permanently garrisoned in occupied Ireland, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.

“The US & British occupiers installed a puppet government in Iraq, as did the Brits install a puppet administration with the powers of a county council in Stormont.

“However, whereas nearly 4,000 British soldiers are to vacate Iraq (with around 300 remaining to train the puppet military), five-thousand are to remain permanently garrisoned here once they reach their final level in January. By their own admission they are to continue to aid another arm of the British Crown Forces – namely the RUC – when necessary, including all bomb disposal operations.

“It is long past time that Britain announced a full and permanent withdrawal not only from Afghanistan and Iraq, but an end also to their nine-hundred year-long occupation of Ireland.

“This December – traditionally the month of the prisoners – we particularly remember our fellow countrymen who are being held captive by the Brits and their lackeys in the Free State.”

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