Madam, - The photograph in Monday's edition showing Mr Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary, at Shannon Airport with US troops en route to Iraq should be a cause of concern to Irish citizens. It now seems that not only has Shannon Airport become a permanent staging post for US troops en route to Iraq and the Middle East but also a quasi overseas US base where the Secretary of Defence can address his troops.
Is the US now rubbing our noses in the mud of lost Irish sovereignty? - Yours, etc.,
BRENDAN BUTLER,
NGO Peace Alliance,
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