STOP IRISH COMPLICITY IN BUSH'S WAR U.S. MILITARY OUT OF SHANNON
The US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost over 650,000 Iraqis lives. Over 3,000 US soldiers have been killed and the war is costing the US $8.4 billion a month.
Bush is intensifying his threats against Iran and backed the brutal Israeli invasion of Lebanon as well as its oppression of the Palestinians.
The war that was supposed to be over in Afghanistan rages on and has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Afghanis. Bertie Ahern and the Irish government have been actively collaborating with Bush's monstrous and illegal war.
They have allowed over 1,000,000 US troops to pass through Shannon since 2003. They have turned a blind eye to secret "renditions"- torture flights.
At least 147 secret CIA have flights landed at Shannon according to a recent EU Parliament report. But the Irish people reject Irish complicity in Bush's war crimes. A majority oppose the war and the use of Shannon airport by US military.
In the US the tide is turning with a protest of half a million in Washington in January. If the American people reject this war and hundreds of thousand are prepared to demonstrate to stop it, so should we. In election year we can make a difference by making Irish complicity in Bush's war an election issue.
The Irish Anti-War Movement wants to mobilise maximum pressure on the government and all opposition parties in the run-in to the general election to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military and CIA torture planes.
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