RECENT revelations from Iraq expose the death and torture carried out in our name so do the politicians responsible deserve our support?

All wars and conflicts are messy affairs but Tony Blair and the Conservatives wanted this unnecessary war against Iraq for reasons they still struggle to justify.

We should remember the world community through the United Nations had Saddam Hussain safely under control. With inspectors actively monitoring his activities. Sanctions and diplomatic pressures amongst many other levers so successful against other despotic regimes were driven aside by Tony Blair and the Tories as they raced to war.

10,000 innocent Iraqi women and children may have been killed by our forces and their allies and not a single weapon of mass destruction has het been found. Now their second case for war on humanitarian grounds is also falling apart.

The hatred and anger being created abroad will live as a threat to us and our children for many years to come.

It is so regrettable that the vast resources spent bombing people in far away countries could do so much more, just one cruise missile launched costs more than £750,000. What could you have done in your community with all those millions?

When you next see a Labour or Conservative advocate for this war grinning back at you, take their works with a pinch of salt and think seriously about their judgment having put our own young soldiers in such a legally doubtful position fighting for control of another country in very difficult circumstances.

ALEX FEATHERSTONE, Pickering, North Yorkshire.