MR Burrows (Shuttle/Times & News Letters, April 3) thinks we should be denied free speech and charged with treason for not supporting a war intended to remove a dictator who denies his people free speech.

I am appalled that some people are concerned only for our troops, who are armed, paid and there by choice. More innocent Iraqi children have been killed than British troops, many mutilated by coalition cluster bombs - the worst weapon used by either side.

Why not try to make peace with the world and address the causes of September 11 and the world's hatred of America - America's interventionist foreign policy.

This war, far from stemming terrorism, is likely to create hundreds more Bin Ladens.

LENINA CROWNE

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