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Intentions exposed

Sir, — The Iraqi social fabric has been shattered by the United States on some pretext or the other. All along, the U.S. President, George W. Bush, had accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Saddam Hussein would have used at least part of such WMD if he had really possessed them. The fact that no such thing happened has exposed the lack of credibility of the accusation against him and the false premise of Mr. Bush to attack Iraq has been laid bare. Whatever might have been the atrocities of Saddam against his own population, Mr. Bush does not have any justification for his brutal killing of Iraqi citizens. He owes an explanation to the U.N. as to why he attacked Iraq and enacted a mass destruction of that country.

M. Rajaraman,

Pondicherry

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Sir, — As pointed out by C. Rammanohar Reddy ( `U.S. economy, oil contracts and war', April 12 ), the avarice and greed of the U.S. are the real reasons for the war on Iraq. Following the military victory, the vultures have arrived to claim a share of the corpse. Billions of dollars are at stake for the oil, defence, reconstruction and food companies.

It is becoming clear that the U.S. companies will get the lion's share of this loot. Even British and Australian firms, the two major partners of the so-called coalition of the willing, will only get crumbs. Little wonder then that they are making the right noises for involving the U.N. in Iraq's reconstruction.

Rakesh Agrawal,

Dehra Dun

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