AS I read the letters pages in your paper, two letters in particular caught my attention.

One entitled ' Messy Business' and the other 'Natural Prawn Killers.'

The first one sets out to condemn anyone who backs the campaign of ridding the world of madmen who carry out acts of terrorism.

It makes supporters feel that they don't care about the loss of innocent lives, but we do, and furthermore we see further than the ends of our noses and realise the sacrifices that have to be made.

Don't forget more than 3,000 innocent people, I stress innocent, died during the attack on the World Trade Centre.

If the English and the Americans had not joined forces during the 1940s then perhaps instead of celebrating the Queen's jubilee we may have celebrated Hitler's birthday.

The second letter seemed to go off at a tangent, I agree some of the American foreign policies are flawed, but as close allies we can get around the negotiating table and sort out our differences, it would be far more difficult if we were at loggerheads.

As I have said already we need to be united in our fight against this new tyranny.

It is certainly not a phoney war.

If you want to find out the identity of a group of people, who do have an agenda, study the war history books of the last century.

Extremists of a certain group of people will be seen to have some involvement.

I will be seen to have some involvement.

I will give you two clues if you need them.

It's not the Americans or the author of a book published in 1988, who received death threats.

I rest my case.

John Dailey

Euston Road

Morecambe

I just think it's important to remember that the little people on both sides never start the wars but inevitably end up being the casualties.

If Bin Laden Hussain, Bush and Blair want to beat cobs out of each other then they should get on with it.

But why should someone working all hours to feed the kids or some starving peasant farmer be on the end of the terror bombs of either side? The most disgraceful thing is when politicians hide behnid policies to justify such barbarism - Ed.