Presidential Election 2025

Sure,
You pump over a billion dollars of arms into a situation and you are not involved and get your hands washed by certain folk.

Sorry Podge, not buying the protestations for a second.

She references Amnesty reports in the speech, go look up the Amnesty report on the US led Coalition's bombing of Raqqa. Those are the US led forces referenced.

and then decides the real fault is the west and its sanctions

This the typical over reaction to what she is saying.

Criticism of the US on behalf of those suffering on the ground amounts to treason against the US and the West. We see the exact same thing whenever US involvement and support of Israel is criticised.

You are toeing a familiar line here, one many will not accept in this country thankfully.

She called out all those responsible for the misery and death, including Assad..

The retired US general, Wesley Clark, revealed the Pentagon plans to overthrow seven governments in five years, including Syria.

All that those plans achieved was an appalling loss of life and left in place and even more secure in his position the man for whom none of us have any respect. The people of Syria marched for democracy but they never asked for a war of the nature they got.

This was a country that was almost self sufficient in 2011, which has cities that were the cradle of civilisation. The people of Syria never asked for this barbarism and they never asked for our hypocrisy.

She gave cover to the regime by spinning the lie that the sanctions were the big problem for the country, not that it was run by a dictator terrorising his own citizens.

Did she show any of this alleged bravery while in Syria, or did she just allow herself to be used as an idiot by the regime to spin the narrative they wanted about sanctions?

Harsh words: Assad is not in any way an exemplary democratic leader.

Our President should not be a useful idiot for other countries.

Interesting.

She says "Ultimately Bashar al-Assad is more firmly in place than he has ever been". Well, actually, he is gone.

Her judgment is therefore questionable. Her analysis is based on that one conclusion which she was wrong about as we have seen since. It is not the first time that she was wrong.

Catherine Connolly was wrong about Assad. He is not more firmly in place, he is gone.

Her "truths" were wrong.

"Ms O'Doherty - who met with a number of TDs and senators in Leinster House on Tuesday - said she was supported to some degree by the following 11 Oireachtas members".

Ms O'Doherty says more than her prayers, in fairness.

When she made that speech Assad had 7 years left as leader.

Bullshit.
That is a trite inference that is not justified.

Read what she says not what you think she says or are told she said.

Is Connolly the 1st proper candidate we have now? Has Mairead McGuinness actually confirmed she's running? I think Peter Casey has said he wants to run, but I don't see his route to a nomination. The Soc Dems are backing Connolly anyway, so I assume she'll get her nomination from the Oireachtas member route:

It'd be a good sign of left unity if the likes of PBP (who I assume would support her) and Labour (less sure on this if they think they could run their own candidate) came out in support too.

My point stands.

Only by insinuation and wrong headed agenda driven inference.

A familiar tactic used against anyone critical of what the US or their allies do.

And there you go twisting to the argument you want to counter, even though its not an argument that's been made.

The US has been despicable politically and in its military actions for probably my entire life. I support being critical of them.

That has never made me go to bat for tyrants just because the US is against them, though. But Connolly's actions and words in relation to Syria and Russia show me that she continues to have that viewpoint.

And that will be used to tear her to pieces during this campaign.

Would it be a good idea to get to the bottom of those 'live issues' and see how many of them are based on what she actually said and how many of them are based on some people's false memories of what she said?

So this is 'giving cover' to Assad?

" The most appalling war crimes have been carried out by the Syrian Government and ISIS but also by US-led forces. The latter have been cited by Amnesty in regard to the killing of hundreds of civilians. Ultimately, Bashar al-Assad is more firmly in place than he has ever been. "

Jeez, I hope Connolly never gives me cover on anything.

Perhaps she focused on sanctions over Assad because we are in control over sanctions?

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I am able to read and hear what she said. I can see it supports my point and absolutely fails to support yours.

Hence it seems that you either can't read it, or are blatantly lying about it because it doesn't agree with the position you're putting forward.

Considering you are able to reply to posts here, I can only assume it is the latter.

I wait in hope that the site still exists by the time SF announce a candidate and suddenly you're not supporting Connolly anymore. Because we know that will happen.