MP's view on Iraq (From Penarth Times)

MP's view on Iraq

A RECENT letter to your paper asked Alun Michael to state his views on Iraq. I quote from his reply to me:

"No decisions have been taken to authorise military action - it is neither imminent nor inevitable - all options remain open."

My reply to Mr Michael was:

I can only hope this is truly the case and that our PM is not totally in thrall to the trigger happy cowboy in the White House.

The French are making perfectly good sense in pressing for more time for the UN inspectors to do their work of disarming Saddam Hussein and to find the anthrax which Donald Rumsfeld supplied to him in 1983.

Now the PM is telling us that we should bomb the Iraqi people in order to liberate them, which is in direct contravention of the UN charter.

Do you think that there might be a connection between failure to reform the House of Lords and the fact that one deluded individual has signed us up for war without even a proper debate in parliament and against the clearly expressed will of the British people?

Margaret Phelps Raisdale Gardens Penarth