Madam, - The new resolution being presented to the United Nations by the US and Britain allowing a limited role to that body in the post-invasion administration of Iraq is another step on the road to world domination by these two countries.
It has all the hallmarks of a bully: the blackmail being used is that those who want the Iraqi people to suffer no longer must cooperate with the bullies on the bullies' own terms or stand condemned for not relieving the misery brought on by the US-led invasion.
The answer must surely lie with the UN itself. It must stand up to the US and Britain, insist on its own proper role, take over the helm from those who believe they are in charge of the world, lift the sanctions, yes, but also censure the two belligerent nations and their allies for having brought the United Nations into disrepute.
The UN must pioneer the humanitarian aid necessary for the elimination of diseases caused by "Shock and Awe", control the use of Iraqi oil for the Iraqi people until they are able to do so for themselves and insist that no immoral gains go to the warring nations which have perpetrated a disaster in the Middle East on a scale that they are now unable to manage.
The Irish Government has repeatedly told us its first priority was the authority of the United Nations. Let us hear how loud it cries in protest now that the body it so reveres has been sidelined by two of its own members. - Yours, etc.,
JUSTIN MORAHAN, Scholarstown Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.
Madam, - With its focus firmly fixed on Iraq and Saudi Arabia, have we now got a pure oil administration in the United States? - Yours, etc.,
A. TRAYNOR, Malahide, Co Dublin.