SIR: How did Tony Blair and Bill Clinton push the United Nations into the background and take over the decision making areas relating to attacks on Iraq? Perhaps our local MPs can report back? What opportunities.

One - for every globe-trotting MP and EMP to go on a fact-finding mission to the front line when the guns begin to bang, and, if they return, to tell us about it, rather than after the battle's passed.

Two - the War Minister and Ministry of Defence officials, who have always claimed that the Gulf syndrome had no connection with the drugs cocktails the troops were injected with to visit the Gulf, be given the same shots then, once and for all, the solution would be found.

T Walters, Tottington Road

Harwood

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