75 Fern Road

London

SE4 8TY

3rd February 2003

The Prime Minister

10 Downing Street

London

SW10 8JS

Dear Mr. Blair,

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?

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Your rhetoric about the need to protect the world from Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction is not plausible.  Neither you nor the UN has proof of this. Indeed all the evidence points to the fact that the weapons inspectors in 1990’s have downgraded his military machine, and the present inspection has so far shown no hard core evidence such as to cause fear of attack, particularly against the US and Britain. It is more a fantasy or an excuse for the real reason, which is for the West to secure its uninterrupted supply of the life blood, oil. ...

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