US uses more than mere ‘arm-twisting’

BILL HURLEY, Lt Col, US Marine Corps (retd) describes the CIA rendition through Shannon as just a bit of ‘arm-twisting’ and suggests this type of torture is OK (Irish Examiner letters, June 13). He is much too selective with his facts.

Those who love humanity, who don’t hate Americans, and who have studied history, are pleased air carriers will no longer bring troops through Shannon. There is no luck in blood money.

Lt Col Hurley’s list of attacks by ‘them’ against ‘us’ or the US, amounts to about 5,000 fatalities, all of which were unjustified terrorist murders. This compares to 16,900 criminal murders in the US in 2005 alone (Irish Examiner, June 13).