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EVERY day and night on our television
screens we are shown the visceral barbarity of a
bloody war which Britain and the US says is taking
place in the cause of peace. Weapons of mass
destruction are being used by the “Coalition”,
they say, to prevent some possible future use of,
yes, weapons of mass destruction by Saddam
Hussein. They say they must attack Iraq because
its leader is murderously cruel to his people. Yet
with their constant heavy bombardment of teeming
Iraqi cities and towns are they not being
murderously cruel themselves? And all of this is
designed to win the hearts and minds the Iraqi
people? We have truly entered the 1984 Orwellian
world of Big Brother Newspeak and war is for
peace.
By acting bilaterally in initiating this war,
the US and the UK have alienated many of their
natural allies in the European Union and the
United Nations. In doing so they have made the
world is a much more dangerous place today. In
many parts of the world, the action will be seen
as the new colonial power flexing its muscles and
being guided by the old one – and two White,
Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) countries telling
the world they know what’s best for everyone.
Despite the fact that the war has started, we
must not see what is happening as being totally
beyond our influence. In the interest of a
civilised world order, we should continue with our
protests and demonstrations to demand that our
political representatives and Government support
the moral authority of United Nations. Otherwise
we are left with the rule of war and a new world
disorder.
Does the Irish Government need reminding that
in numerous places around the world so many Irish
soldiers gave their lives defending peace in the
uniform the United Nations? Many of our readers
who come from these places are also grateful for
their sacrifice.
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