I cannot begin to express the disgust and shame I felt on passing the Armed Forces recruiting office to see red paint thrown over it.

This so-called anti-war coalition is inciting civil disobedience and encouraging truancy among schoolchildren.

Does it honestly believe disruption of people's lives will win support?

Just what justice, civil liberty and freedom do their activities give to the Kurds, the Marsh Arabs and Iraqis in general?

I saw two lovely young babies, contented and happily sleeping with their mothers, which bought to mind the picture of a dead Kurdish mother and her dead infant after Saddam Hussein's forces had visited their village and used chemical weapons.

So, ignoring the plight of the Kurds, the virtual extinction of the Marsh Arabs - an ancient culture and civilisation (because they are a different branch of Islam) - the enslavement of the Iraqi people and the thousands of deaths inflicted by Saddam Hussein since 1991 while indulging in and encouraging civil disobedience, insulting our Armed Forces (who are given their orders by the politicians) and vandalising property is the correct and civilised response?

Well, not in my name.

This mentality of "as long as it's not in my backyard, I can pretend it's not happening and preen myself in self-righteous indignation" is disgraceful.

At least Bush and Blair have the guts to stand up to this tyrant.

-Harry Watson, Brighton