THE other week I visited the war memorial in Little Harwood in Blackburn to see my grandfather's name among others.

His name also appears on the military war memorial in Basra, for he was killed in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, in 1917.

He was told that he was defending his hearth and home. Actually, his life was taken to boost the profits of the shareholders of British oil companies.

Now, there is to be more bloodshed so that the American government can corner the world's energy resources as part of its drive for world domination. It is pay-off day for all the businessmen who have poured millions of dollars into party election funds.

Iraq has been the scene of terrible atrocities. America and Britain know that Iraq has had and used appalling weapons forbidden by the Geneva Convention in the past because they supplied them and the means to produce them.

Whether Iraq still has them is a different question. Iraq says it has destroyed them and the UN inspectors have found no evidence to the contrary.

America and Britain have supplied similar weapons to other obnoxious regimes. America has fomented strife in every part of the world. It has caused masses of refugees and is the major threat to world peace in the 21st century. The nations of the world must come together to resist or it will destroy them.

The British government is on the wrong side in this.

ALEC LEVER, Stansfeld Street, Blackburn.