Letter: Gulf crisis
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Your support makes all the difference.THE 1991 photograph of the immolation of the retreating Iraqi convoy on the road to Basra stands as an arresting image of the brutality and horror of war. A US soldier, on viewing that carnage, remarked that this had been brought about "by the madness of one man". I wasn't sure then to whom he was referring, and now, seven years on, when I hear our Defence Secretary threatening "massive damage" on Iraq, I again wonder where the madness lies.
Dr MALCOLM MORRISON
Edinburgh
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