I SHOULD just like to add my two pennyworth, if I may, concerning the Prime Minister of this once great country becoming a puppet of President Bush.

Perhaps Mr Blair would like to reflect on the blood that he will have on his hands if Bush does decide to drop thousands of tons of bombs.

It seems quite obvious to me that Mr Bush is hell-bent on going into Iraq, come what may. It won't matter one jot whether the weapons inspectors find what Mr Bush and Mr Blair say the Iraqis have or not.

I am not a pacifist, or anti-war at any cost. When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait I was as much behind our troops as anyone. There was a perfectly legitimate reason to help out a weaker nation that had been invaded.

Have I missed something? Have the Iraqis invaded another country? If so, then I would be 100 per cent behind our troops and our so-called illustrious leader.

I don't know why George Bush and Tony Blair should be trying to act as the world's policemen.

In reply to Deborah K Schiemer, (Bolton Evening News, February 11). She says she is embarrassed and ashamed that her fellow countrymen hate the Americans. I think that that is an overstatement. Not everyone hates them, but I do remember them being over here, over paid, and over sexed, when they did eventually want to win the war for us.

In reply to I Camick's letter, (Bolton Evening News, February 11). I could not have put it better.

I wish Christina Banks success in her campaign to get the Government to recognise that Gulf War Syndrome does exist, but I don't hold out much hope. This so-called Government is very quick to jump on to the American bandwagon, but, 12 years on, they have still not acknowledged claims that troops became disabled, and in fact died, because of "Gulf War Syndrome". Just where did the MoD doctors responsible for examining these troops think that they had picked up this condition -- mowing the grass at home?

Jack Sinclair

Rawson Road

Bolton