Anti-war campaigners oppose dictators, too

SEVERAL of the reasons given for supporting George W Bush’s recent visit to Ireland were mistaken.

Firstly, Eoin McMahon (Irish Examiner letters, June 25) states that professional protesters only target the policies of regimes that are capitalist, non-secular, anti-terror and anti-crime while simultaneously remaining silent about socialist, communist or Islamo-fascist regimes.

Dictatorships are abhorred by all right-thinking people and the reasons that administrations like those of Mr Bush are targeted by protesters is because they are behaving in a manner that is consistent with unelected dictatorial regimes, despite the fact that they are democratically appointed.