Madam, - I believe the media have missed the full geopolitical significance of recent US policy announcements on Iraq.
The US is planning a permanent presence in Iraq, presumably to maintain control over its vast oil resources and possibly to thus deny access to energy-hungry opponents.
Despite the "democracy" spin, the illegal invasion of Iraq has proved to be a neo-colonial commitment, bearing out former president Jimmy Carter's insight last year:
"The reason we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base". - Yours, etc,
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JA BARNWELL, St Patrick's Road, Dublin 9.