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Letters


Letters


Bombing Iraq • Intelligent Design – The Debate Continues • Milwaukee Confucianism • The Authentic Sartre • Rewards and Retribution • Quantized Brains • Why the sun looks bigger… • Why Be Moral?


Bombing Iraq


DEAR EDITOR: Your debate in Issue 32 about the bombing of Baghdad invites many comments.


Some of your contributors (Shahrar Ali, Mike Dewar and Hilo Matthews) entirely miss a crucial fact. The US/UK air ‘patrols’ over Iraq have no justification in international law, so there can be no question of bombing ‘legitimate’ military targets. The so-called ‘no-fly zones’ over south and north Iraq have never been authorised in a UN resolution or by any other legal instrument. Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has confirmed this (Unvanquished, 1999, p.


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