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A Letter Asking President Barack Obama to Respect Irish Neutrality
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Thursday January 22, 2009 18:18 by Edward Horgan - Peace and Neutrality Alliance edward_horgan at hotmail dot com
End transit of US troops, munitions and CIA rendition planes through Shannon airport
The Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance has called on the newly inaugurated 44th President of the United States to respect international law with regard to Irish neutrality by taking steps to terminate the transit through Shannon airport of US troops, military material and CIA associated aircraft engaged in extraordinary rendition with immediate effect.
Related Links: I was due to travel on Sunday 18th Jan, and no progress was made in spite of representations by Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator John Kerry, and Congressman William Delahunt. The added weight of Minister John Gormley then led to representations to the US embassy by the Department of Foreign Affairs, and eventually I got word that my visa was approved on Friday 16th Jan. This required further logistical juggling to get my passport from the US Embassy in Dublin to Limerick, but I eventually made my flight and got to Washington late on Sunday night. The inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States was indeed the most historical and most moving event I have ever attended. Let's hope he lives up the very necessary expectations of real change that Americans and billions of others expect of him. Given the damage his predecessor President George W Bush has done to the reputation of the United States, and the rear physical damage and trauma, including war crimes and crimes against humanity the Bush Administration has presided over, the tasks facing President Barack Obama are huge. From an Irish context, the Irish Government has been complicit in the crimes of the Bush regime, especially those committed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the abuses of the UN Convention against torture. I have written the following letter to President Barack Obama urging him to end the abuse of international law and Irish neutrality by US military use of Shannon airport . To: Senator Barack Obama, President-Elect of the United States of America
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