John Parry could not be more wrong in his suggestion that now war has broken out it is time to stop the protests against it.

If the war was wrong before hostilities broke out, it is just as wrong now.

If those who take Mr Parry's attitude had prevailed during the Vietnam War, the US would still be in occupation of that country.

Mr Parry should remember the words of Dr Samuel Johnston - patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We should remind ourselves that Saddam Hussein was installed as Iraq's leader with the help of the CIA.

The US even vetoed a resolution in the mid-Eighties condemning the use of the weapons of mass destruction it, the UK and Germany had provided Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.

-Tony Greenstein secretary, Brighton and Hove Unemployed Workers' Centre