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Trimble slams democrats' policy on Ulster
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| Last Edited | Easily Offended Man Mar 17, 2004 09:09am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DAVID Trimble has attacked United States presidential candidate John Kerry over his position on Northern Ireland, as the province's politicians today prepared to celebrate St Patrick's Day in Washington.
The Ulster Unionist leader said he took offence at Democratic Party hopeful Mr. Kerry's assertion that "the guns are silent".
And he also criticised much of the track record in Northern Ireland of former President Bill Clinton as "grand-standing."
Mr Trimble said people have been killed every year since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and there ought to be consequences and a tough stance against violence.
The former First Minister compared the violence in Northern Ireland to the terrorism of al-Qaida and said any United States administration "must treat it the same way as you would terrorism elsewhere".
Entering the on-going American Presidential election campaign, Mr Trimble went on: "In terms of delivering and achieving, we have found the Bush White House to be more effective [than the Democrats]".
In a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, the Upper Bann MP commented that former White House incumbent Bill Clinton had not been so clear in guiding the peace process.
His criticism came after Mr Kerry attacked President George Bush, for an "absence of presidential involvement in efforts to further the peace process."
Mr Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, said US involvement should reflect the approach taken by President Clinton but Mr Trimble retorted: "I would like to gently say to Mr Kerry, I don't see it that way."
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