Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

They carry soldiers and soldiers carry and fire arms and drop bombs.

The Chilchot report will be released tomorrow, nine years after it was commissioned. Comprising 2.6 million words and having cost £9 million, it will be the second earthquake to rock the British establishment in less than ten days. It will reveal engagement in war by the British establishment, in which, in terms of its co-operation in this area, the Irish Government is complicit. It is hoped that, as a result of this report, Tony Blair will be indicted for war crimes. Should he be so indicted, then the complicity of the Irish Government in allowing troops fly over and land at Shannon Airport will be clear. One million people have been slaughtered as a result of the engagement in the Middle East since the commencement of the Iraq war. We stood in silence this morning for 200 people killed in Baghdad a couple of days ago. The war and the carnage continues and we continue to allow soldiers who carry weapons and drop bombs to land at our airport.

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