Altruism?
A. Nattrass' insistence on US altruism would be laughable if it was not typical of American blinkeredness ('Freeing the Iraqis', September 25).
In one sentence we are asked to remember former president Saddam Hussein's use of weapons of mass destruction. In the next we are told that they are unimportant - much like the muddled justifications being made by the US and the UK over the invasion itself.
As to Iraqi oil, any claims would be more believable if US Vice-President Dick Cheney's old employer Halliburton had not been granted exclusivity. The sell-off of Iraqi businesses to the highest bidder under the auspices of 'rebuilding Iraq' only further removes the country from its countrymen.
The US's refusal to get out of Iraq and let the UN continue counters any argument that what it wants is best for Iraqis: if you were truly doing it out of altruism - leave the country.
The comment 'resolutely opposed by peace-loving nations' nearly made me fall off my chair. Peace-loving suggests non-aggressive, an epithet for which the US is ineligible owing to its support of dictators and terrorist leaders.
ADAM WILLIAMS, Peng Chau
