Irish were just cannon fodder for imperialists

DONAL Buckley (Irish Examiner letters, Nov 17) says it is time to change our thinking on World War I.

Irish were just cannon fodder for imperialists
Mon, 24 Nov, 2003 - 00:00

Well, it is certainly time to change our thinking on this monstrous tragedy. The war had nothing to do with 'the freedom of small nations,' or any other kind of freedom.

To suggest that imperial Russia, France, England or 'poor little Catholic Belgium' the latter responsible for the extermination of 10 million natives in the Congo were fighting for other than their own imperial interests is ridiculous.

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