IT was the usual dry monotone voice which so horrified me.

Our Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, when repeatedly pressed by John Humphrys on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme for a "yes" or "no", finally admitted that he was content with the American attacks on Fallujah.

There was no expression of regret for the hundreds of Iraqis killed there.

(We came to Iraq to save them, remember?)

I have not seen any convincing expression of regret from Tony Blair, either.

Michael Howard, Conservative leader, hardly a pacifist, has shown concern about the lack of British political involvement just now.

What is wrong with this Labour Government, inheritor of a tradition concerned with compassion and peace?

I am worried about the kind of people running Britain.

Roy Stevens,

Willow Bank,

New Earswick, York.

...GROUPS within Iraq are now robustly resisting the occupation of their land. Some of their tactics are dirty and immoral, just as some of the methods and objectives of the coalition military forces have been dirty and immoral in bombing, invading and occupying Iraq.

The reasons given for US and British forces entering Iraq were weapons of mass destruction and the regime of Saddam Hussein. Neither reason now applies.

I wonder what the parents, partners and siblings of British military personnel serving in Iraq feel about it all now?

Colin S. Jeffrey,

East Mount Road, York.

Updated: 09:52 Thursday, April 15, 2004