Letter to the Prime Minister

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Letter to the Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister,

This is my first ever letter to you and therefore I trust you will

read its entire content even though the subject matter is one on which

your office is presently inundated.

What has staggered me as I watch and read the news on Iraq is your

unrelenting drive to appease the US and President George Bush in

particular, despite the overwhelming majority of British, US and world

citizens being against a military attack. How do you find it possible

to ignore the wise counsel of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Nelson

Mandela, ex President Jimmy Carter, Kofi Anan and many other important

personalities around the world?

No one denies the brutal action of Saddam Hussein, through whose hands

the ordinary people of Iraq have suffered murder, torture and

persecution; but is it not true that a decade of UN sanctions has

killed one million children through starvation and lack of medical

aid? Is it not true that it was Britain and the US who, in the 1980's,

supplied the very weapons that he has used against his own people and

to wage war against Iran?

Your rhetoric about the need to protect the world from Saddam

Hussein's weapons of mass destruction is not plausible. Neither you

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