Sinn Fein compares Iraq invasion with Ireland's occupation

"If there is a comparison, it could be that what is happening in
Iraq could create the same kind of scenario as we have had because
this action does not have international approval, it does not have
United Nations backing," he said in an interview with PA News.
The Sinn Fein chairman was responding to criticism from pro-
British Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, who questioned the Irish
republican movement's opposition to the war against Iraq because of
its links with the IRA's use of violence.
"Sinn Fein understands and has sympathy for those who have been
bereaved and injured in this conflict -- especially the thousands upon
thousands of Iraqi civilians," McLaughlin said.
He argued that his party's credentials on peace 'cannot be called
into question when you look at the key role we have played towards a
just and lasting peace in Ireland'. This, he said, was 'something
David Trimble cannot even deny'.
The war of words came ahead of US President George W Bush's visit
to Belfast for his third war summit in the past three weeks with
British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Earlier Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams accused the British and
American leaders of hypocrisy by including talks on the Northern
Ireland peace process as a side issue to the Iraq war.

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