Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ireland, sadly, has been sponsoring the US war of terror and aggression in the Middle East, Afghanistan, northern Africa and beyond for 16 years now. Different Governments in that time have found it difficult to admit that we are complicit in what is happening. We cannot for one second say we are neutral any more, given that we are allowing Shannon to be used as a US military base for the region in which they have caused untold destruction.

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