Letter: End Iraq's agony

Sir: It would be for the good of the Iraqi population if Saddam were brought down. Campaigns against repression and for democracy in Iraq have argued this for many years. But it was the US and the UK who armed him - over all those years. It was the US and the UK who failed to support opposition movements within Iraq. It was the US and the UK whose missiles and threats and sanctions have kept him in power while the people starve.

We should all be asking: How will this bombing disarm Saddam?

JOHN NICHOLSON

Manchester