I HOPE Iraq's economy improves and the anarchy and bloodshed ends, but has this military action made the world a safer place?

All it appears to have done is make terrorists hate the West more and stir up a hornets' nest.

Mr Bush and Mr Blair would have been wiser to have contained Saddam Hussein and directed their intelligence and resources into hunting down al Qaida.

Nick Fletcher,

Langton Road,

Norton,

Malton.

Updated: 10:07 Friday, March 26, 2004