Madam, - Only a grade A ostrich would still contend that the invasion of Iraq was worth the candle. It was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster!
You can say what you like about Saddam Hussein - goodness knows he was a tyrant - but at least he kept a degree of order in that most unfortunate country.
Now we have Shia killing Sunni and Sunni killing Shia. It's now almost inevitable that this internecine strife will develop into a full-blown bloody and protracted civil war. And after all the slaughter what will become of Iraq? It will fragment; it's as simple as that. - Yours, etc,
PAUL DELANEY, Dalkey, Co Dublin.