Green Party Declines White House Invitation Green Party Press Release • 15 March 2007 The Green Party has declined an invitation to join President Bush's Whitehouse celebrations on St Patrick's Day. The Party is citing its opposition to the war in Iraq and the need for political leadership in the battle to protect the climate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as their reason for the decision. In a brief statement on behalf of the Party Executive, Dr John Barry & Dr Peter Doran said: "Green Partiy colleagues in the US and across the world have been consistent in their opposition to President Bush's illegal war in Iraq. Moreover, if the Green Party is to be true to its commitment to combat climate change, we must walk the talk. The Party has decided that a two-way trip across the Atlantic to celebrate St Patrick's Day in the Whitehouse is not a compelling reason, morally or practically, for emitting half a tonne of CO2." Citing the lack of leadership shown by the Bush Adminstration on climate change Dr. Barry explained: "Our decision to decline this invitation should not be read as a criticism of the American people, but of the Bush Adminstration. Despite the Bush adminstration's lack of commitment to tackling climate change, there are many positive signs of grassroots leadership on the issue in the United States - in California, for example. Dozens of Mayors representing some 25 million Americans have signed up to an initiative to get American cities to meet the US's Kyoto environmental target which George Bush repudiated: cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 7% by 2010." The Green Party Executive thanked the American administration for the invitation but declined the invitation.                                                                                         Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. - Frank Zappa Index: Current Articles 18 March 2007 Other Articles From This Issue: How I Almost Got My Ass Kicked at the St. Patrick's Day Parade and Lived to Tell About It David Kruidenier The Protestant 'Pat Finucane' Father Sean Mc Manus, President, Irish National Caucus Green Party Declines White House Invitation Green Party Press Release Assembly Needs an Opposition David Adams Belfast Hot Air Anthony McIntyre Citizen Tom Dr John Coulter A History of Nationalism in Ireland Liam O Ruairc Review of Challenging the New Orientalism Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Two Sides of a Coin Dr John Coulter The CLM Anthony McIntyre Sinn Fein Batmen Brian Mór Launch of SaorEire.com Colm Mistéil Reject the 'New' RUC Republican Socialist Youth Movement 32 County Sovereignty Movement: Water Charges Are Illegal Kevin Murphy The National Irish Freedom Committee on Gerry McGeough National Irish Freedom Committee NIFC Free Form Video Discusses Elections, Abstentionism Saerbhreathach Mac Toirdealbhaigh America's 'Global War On Terrorism' M. Shahid Alam Iñaki de Juana Chaos Anthony McIntyre • 14 March 2007 • Legal Aid Wrangle Continues Michael McKevitt Justice Campaign Statements on the Arrest of Gerry McGeough Various Campaign for Noel Maguire TJ O Conchúir Paisleyites & Peelers Anthony McIntyre Equating Spectacle at Stormont with United Irishmen is Perverse Tommy Gorman Seacht mbuicéad caca go dtite ar a gcinn Michael Gillespie Nothing But the Truth John Kennedy Snapshot, 1993: Voters' Rights, MI5 Wrongs Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh Broad Church for Unionism Dr John Coulter The Man Without the Mask Anthony McIntyre The New Boyne Harriers Brian Mór UUP Possibilities Dr John Coulter Blinkered Vision Anthony McIntyre Damned by Debt Relief Pauline Hadaway

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