Madam, - Does Mark Steyn realise that, although he may be right in saying "there are millions of Americans who take the view that there's no such thing as a bad reason to whack Saddam", Saddam remains well and truly alive, while perhaps 100,000 Iraqis and several thousand coalition troops have suffered said "whacking". - Yours etc,
DAVID MANNING, Athlone, Co Westmeath.