New US troop SURGE through Shannon airport
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Sunday April 15, 2007 10:23
by Edward Horgan - Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance
Blood on our hands
Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early.
Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people.
The Peace and Neutrality Alliance calls for ongoing protests at Shannon airport due to the arrival of OMNI Air International as an additional US troop carrier through Shannon airport. The passage of US Troops through Shannon is becomming a fait accomplii because and accepted custom and practice because not enough Irish people care about the killing of "foreigners" in places such as Iraq.
It is the duty of every Irish person to protest and do all in their power to prevent Shannon airport being used as an instrument of mass murder.
The growing death toll in Iraq has already exceeded the 655,000 reported in the Lancet report in 2006. up to 260,000 of these fatalities were children.
There is shame on us all for doing so little to prevent this slaugher of the innocents.
Protesters are now needed at Shannon airport each weekend from now on for as long as Shannon is being used as an instrument of war.