The US government and armed forces spent about 20 years failing to crush the tiny, impoverished country of Vietnam, which had no weapons of mass destruction.
The British government and armed forces have spent the past 25 years failing to crush the amateur combatants of the IRA.
Messrs Bush and Blair want to take us into a war against a large nation with great oil wealth and, so they tell us, weapons of mass destruction.
They should realise, on past showing, such a war could go on for a very long time and might end in a humiliating defeat.
-Sue Jones, Wellington Road, Portslade
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