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Mon 12 Dec 2008Irish involvement in Afghan war 'foolish'
RETIRED ARMY commandant Edward Horgan has criticised the wide media coverage given recently to the funeral of Royal Marine Robert McKibben, the Co Mayo man who was killed while serving with British forces in Afghanistan last month.
Speaking at the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (Pana) annual conference in Dublin on Saturday, he said it was "foolish" for Irish people to participate in such conflicts. He claimed media outlets which described Mr McKibben as a peacekeeper were wrong. "Clearly he wasn't peacekeeping in Afghanistan. He shouldn't have been there in the first place.
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