What’s immoral about the war on Saddam?

EDWARD HORGAN (‘Irish clergy’s silence on Iraq is inexcusable’ (Irish Examiner letters, February 14) presumes to lecture the Irish clergy for not preaching on the morality of the Iraq war.

I find Mr Horgan’s own position highly dubious because his opposition to the war is based on false casualty figures. As to having the bishops address ‘political corruption,’ perhaps they should just because Mr Horgan thinks they should.

Presumably their sermons would be short: ‘corruption is bad.’

They might also add that falsehoods should not be presented as though they were fact.

After 9/11, no responsible US government would have been in a position merely to contain one of the most dangerous dictators on the planet. Ridding the world of Saddam and his psychopathic sons does not immediately strike one as immoral. Neither does the possibility of bringing democracy to the Middle East.

Interesting that Mr Horgan should end with a reference to the Holocaust. Another war between the Allies and a vicious dictator in which we were neutral. What a pity we didn’t supply the Americans with the Shannon stopover then, too.

James McGrath

Birchgrove

Hollyford

Co Tipperary