Madam, - Your diarist Kevin Myers continues to be unimpressed by arguments that demolish his views on the Iraq War.
He is certainly very selective in the letters from your readers that he reads. Us NIMNs have not gone away and we were not wrong!
Apropos his Irishman's Diary of May 15th, the US and Britain did not go to war "for Iraqi freedom". The war was about "weapons of mass destruction". If I heard Bush and Blair use that phrase once, I heard it a thousand times. Where are these "weapons of mass destruction"? I'd be very suspicious of any "find" at this late stage of the game.
As to his final question on what we have to say about Hillah, well, words again fail me, as they have done in the past. As, for example, they failed me in the aftermath of Nagasaki, surely one of the greatest examples of the use of weapons of mass destruction in the history of mankind. (I was, God forgive me, prepared to accept Hiroshima, but not Nagasaki).
There are plenty of questions to be asked all right; Mr Myers keeps asking the wrong ones. Oh, I suppose I will again have to spell it out; being anti all those dreadful things, does not affect my great love of America and its people. - Yours etc.,
W.J. MURPHY,
Malahide,
Co Dublin.