LYNDA Holmes can rest assured she gets my full support concerning the posting of her Guardsman son to Iraq (Chronicle, March 15).

This great nation should never have become embroiled in the fiasco which is now taking place in that far-flung country.

We have a Prime Minister with blood on his hands. His naivety allowed him to be swept along on the coat-tails of an American President who should not be allowed to run a whelk stall, much less the world.

The French had a word for it and that word was "non" and they were correct.

JOHN AULTON

Evesham Street

Alcester