Person: Sean Buttimer

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Not in my name

I would like to personally apologise to all the Palestinian people for my Government’s "abstention" in the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry into the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

Ukraine: why is use of force acceptable now

Majority of Syrian population supports Assad

Message to Obama

Excuse is hard to swallow

Armstrong legacy

The no-fly farce

COALITION aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone have so far destroyed 144 Libyan tanks, thus ensuring they cannot be flown.

Tue, 29 Mar, 2011

US leaves a legacy of bloodshed in Iraq

NOW that the Americans have finally accepted they cannot conquer Iraq, after all the slaughter visited on its citizens, they are planning to exit as the going has become too tough — like they did in Korea, Vietnam and Somalia — and the folks back home have found again that their president had lied to them to get their support for an illegal war. And their British lackeys must be wondering now why they ever supported Bush in the first place.

Mon, 04 Dec, 2006

We’re playing host to US killing machine

HOW can we claim to be neutral and still allow thousands of US soldiers to stop in our country on the way to fight an illegal, racist war in Iraq?

Fri, 25 Nov, 2005

Bloody price of US foreign policy

IN a recent letter to the Irish Examiner, Jim Malo from Connecticut sought “specific information” on civilian torture by US authorities.

Mon, 06 Dec, 2004

Trail of blood leads back to Kissinger

THE newly-declassified document (Irish Examiner, August 28) that shows Henry Kissinger telling Argentina’s Foreign Minister “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”, just before the campaign against dissidents in 1976, should come as no great surprise.

Wed, 15 Sep, 2004