Madam, - I was interested to hear on BBC news that Mr Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jnr, son of the former Liberian president of the same name, has been placed on trial in the United States for the crime of torture.
This is a most welcome development.
However one wonders when this will be followed by the trial of George Bush Jnr, son of the former US president of the same name, together with his lieutenants Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc for the same offence.
Surely, in the land of the free, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. - Yours, etc,
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Senator DAVID NORRIS, Seanad Éireann, Dubin 2.