Recently, I have been astonished and (almost) discouraged by the smallmindedness displayed in a fair proportion of letters about Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Tony Blair is a statesman, being attacked by mere politicians, media self-publicists and others with apparently very little vision.

It is perfectly obvious Mr Blair believes sincerely in the need to establish and support a genuine organisation, willing and able to enforce international law, and the UN is merely the stumbling, infant prototype of this.

That such an effective organisation is urgently necessary must surely be obvious to anyone with some sort of vision above the domestic problems of life.

Mr Bush and, more particularly, Mr Blair, in the face of every difficulty, are trying to prod the UN into reinforcing and upholding such international law as we have. In the circumstances, the threat to "go to it alone" is the prod.

I sympathise with the anti-war demonstrators (is anyone but a maniac not anti-war?) but feel they are "wrong for the right reasons".

I joined the TA just before the start of the Second World War - because any fool could see something would have to be done about Hitler, although we all desperately wanted peace - thus I was "in it" from start to finish and know force is sometimes unavoidable.

If it comes to conflict this time, why don't we call it an International Law Enforcement Action? That is what it is intended to be.

-G E Lovell, The Causeway, Horsham