Dear Editor,
As I write (11.03.07) we are approaching the fourth anniversary of the start of what I consider to be an illegal war with Iraq.
There is now effectively a Civil War between the Sunni and Shias. The United Nations has estimated that in this year alone, 34,000 Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence. A further 21,000 American troops are being drafted into Iraq.During the four years over a hundred British Soldiers have lost their lives, and many more have returned home injured, both physically and mentally, only to receive shabby medical treatment, partly because specialised Armed Forces Hospitals have been shut down.
How much more suffering will take place and how will there be a solution? Can those who took us into the War give us an answer?
Christine Bampton-Smith
Liberal Democrat Councillor
Luddendenfoot Ward
