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?

We will never know how many innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been killed by the troops who have passed through Shannon.

As the so-called war on terror rolls on, thousands more Iraqis will be killed and their blood will be on our hands because we are playing host to the US killing machine that is causing havoc in their country.

Ireland has a proud past in standing up for the rights of the poor, the hungry and the destitute worldwide. Why have we left the Iraqi people down?

Let’s not fool ourselves and say the US (with their English lackeys in tow) are there for the good of Iraq. They are there for the oil.

The only people ‘lawfully’ engaged in this illegal war are the Iraqi resistance who are struggling to liberate their own country from the unwanted invaders from the west.

Sean Buttimer Jnr

Knocknamadree

Ballyhooly

Co Cork