Iraq

please may I congratulate the Echo on trying to keep the readers up to date as to what is going on in the middle east. However, readers must understand that there is no way that Bush nor Blair can actually criticise Israel over the actions it is taking in Lebanon. Why not? Please consider this.Did not Blair lie when giving the reasons for invading Iraq. It was to achieve the overthrow of a legitimate government even though that government was detestable. There was no UN mandate.Did we not kill cilvilians when bombing Iraq into submission. Was it not our missiles fired by our military personnel, who were just following orders, that destroyed bridges, roads and killed innocent women and children. Have we not trained the militia who are now killing people from other religous groups.Is it not our soldiers who capture 'insurgents' and hand them over to be tortured and killed by the new 'democratic' government of Iraq.Are we not killing civilians when taking on the Taliban. Our soldiers are now in Iraq because the 'democratic' government wants us to be there, as well as the UN. Where are the blue helmets denoting that we are UN troops. Where are we actually patroling the streets protecting the local population in what is not a civil war but is sectarian violence.Neither Bush not Blair can accuse Israeli troops and commanders of committing war crimes because we have done the same since invading Iraq. Again our troops have a choice. They can continue to commit war crimes and eventually face the consequences or they can refuse illegal orders. We can be forced into silence over this issue but the truth will always come out. Bush and Blair are war criminals no different to Stalin, Hitler and Tojo.In the meantime four young teenage girls are criminals who are jailed overnight because they wrote some graffiti on a pavement. Get real people. Murder and mayhem with a potential world war and what fills the letters page!!!