Madam, - Martin Moran's claim (March 16th) that left-wingers have supported Saddam Hussein is utterly false. Right-wingers such as Ronald Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld were ones who wholeheartedly supported Saddam while he was committing heinous atrocities in the 1980s. They turned against him only after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when his behaviour started to affect the oil business. - Yours, etc.,
JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIÉRREZ, Clontarf Road, Dublin 3.