UK and US must take the blame

Sir, – Last week we had wall to wall coverage by the director of MI5 Andrew Parker.

His speech featured more unsubstantiated allegations that Russia used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and that Russia allowed their ally Assad to “allegedly” uses chemical weapons on the people of Iraq.

This cannot be allowed, he told us.

Despite Mr Parker’s warning, it is America and their partner in crime the British and not Russia that have been the biggest threat to world peace since the Second World War and they still are. Try selling oil in any currency other than the petrol dollar and we will destroy you and put a puppet government in to run your country.

The legacy of the Iraq wars, in which the UK Government was fully complicit, has included leaving men women and children to die prematurely from cancers, the culprit being depleted uranium from munitions used during the Iraq wars, yet still the US vetoes any attempt by the UN to have the sanctions lifted (these have been in place since the 1990s).

Iraq cannot buy the drugs it requires in order to treat these cancers or the means of cleaning up their lands from the deadly depleted uranium.

Even the little they received in the ‘Food for Oil’ programme was a sham since the lion’s share went to pay the UN.

Whitewash it as much as you like, use Russia as a diversionary tactic but in the end, it was the US/ UK who attacked the Iraqi people with chemical weapons (depleted uranium) under the pretext that Iraq had the capacity to launch a chemical weapons attack on the West.

How ironic was that? We all know these are war crimes but never will any US or UK leader be dragged into court.

Surely it is now time for UK citizens to wake up to the truth. Walter Hamilton. Flat 3, City Park, City Road, St Andrews.

As MSPs sit in their ivory tower there is a rising wave of violence and abuse against hospital staff across the Scottish NHS with more than 16,500 physical and verbal attacks