Tim Siret, (Viewpoints, September 13) seems to have forgotten why the Iraq War happened.

Saddam invaded Kuwait on his way to Saudi Arabia.

The UN made a resolution that he must get out, he did not.

So, as part of the UN we kicked him out.

‘Storming Norman’ Shwarzkopf, the US commander, chased them out to Baghdad, then he stopped, saying we only had UN orders to kick him out of Kuwait.

Then the UN resolution No. 1 was issued saying: “If he did not disarm, we would disarm him by force.”

After a couple of years later in which a few more resolutions were not complied to, the Shi’ites, encouraged by the UN forces, rose up in the swamplands.

Saddam gassed two million of them, men, women, children and still we did nothing. Another resolution.

Then he gasses 50,000 Kurds in the north of the country. Still we do nothing.

Ten years and 17 resolutions later the UN issues another resolution the same as No 1, all agree.

So the US and UK and others go in. UN panic and say we need another resolution. Too late mate!

So, not only was the war legal, but he had weapons of mass destruction and used them.

Now you tell me what part have I got wrong.

R. BEAUCHAMP, Hugh Allen, Crescent Marston, Oxford