November 23, 2002

Judgment on Iraq

Sir, As an Iraqi living in Britain, I was very hopeful that the day my country was freed from dictatorship and oppression was getting closer. In his speech to the UN last September, President Bush said: “Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal”, and I totally agreed with him. But the language seems to be changing. No one is talking about my people any more. It is all about inspection and weapons that can threaten neighbouring countries.

America should not abandon the “moral cause” it believed in only two months ago.

Yours sincerely,
AHMED SHAMES,
London
UK.
November 22.