What WIllie O'Dea said one year ago today.

national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Tuesday January 27, 2004 18:10 by Tempis Fugit

Did Willie's comments inspire Shannon action?

One year ago, Jan 27 2003, Willie O'Dea appeared on RTE 1's Questions and Answers. He was asked about the war and whether it was all about the oil.
He gave an interesting answer.
within 2 days Mary Kelly had put an axe in a military jet at Shannon. Was Willie the moustache that broke the camel's back?

Willie O'Dea, junior minister of state at dept of justice (just ice with that drink, no lemon please) is a man whose words are worth remembering.

He is the man who said that there was 'nothing secretive or furtive going on at Shannon airport'

We should look back now to what he said on the TV a year ago, before the slaughter of thousands of Iraqis.

What he said about how the "Bush Administration shouldn't be ashamed or afraid" to admit that "Oil has a lot to do with it "
and that "The price of oil . . . and the control of the oil supply has a vital impact on the economies of all the western world . . It has a vital impact on your jobs . . . on my job . "

ah, yes, Willie's words are worth remembering.

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