I'm just an ordinary man. I try to do the best for my family, give them a safe, secure home,treat them occaisionally to something nice and, where possible,try to keep the big bad world from bursting into our little private world.

Today I have been flicking back and forwards on the TV, trying to avoid yet another newsflash telling me, that we're hanging on the coat tails of a madman, rushing towards the abyss. Not because I want to deny that there are terrible things about to happen, but because I'd rather my son didn't find out too much about how crap things are out there.

This evening, well, everyone's safley tucked up in their beds. I'm sat by the fire, watching the news, and seeing families in Bagdhad trying to maintain some degree of normality. Trying to protect their children form the harsh realities for a few precious seconds longer.

These are not the fanatical followers of some charismatic leader. These are by and large, ordinary folk. Trying to do the best for their family, give them a safe, secure home, treat them occaisionaly to something nice, and, where possible, try to keep the big bad world from bursting into their little private worlds.

The difference is, for them, that tonight, tomorrow or the next day, the big bad world is going to come crashing through the walls of their house, erupting in a cloud of metal and plastic fragments, shredding and pulverising everything that it comes in contact with. Tonight, tomorrow or the next day, the big bad world will spray fuel-air explosives into the atmosphere above their homes, detonating with such force that it creates an electromagnetic pulse and stops electrical equipment. Telephones, radios, hospital monitors, babies incubators. Tonight, tomorrow or the next day, the big bad world will drop tens of thousands of bomblets that turn human beings into hamburger.

To all the people of Iraq who will tonight, tomorrow or the next day, find the big bad world so rudely imposed upon them, I can only say that I am sorry. I cannot deny that there are terrible things out there, I would not try to deny that awful things are going to happen. But, as I sit here tonight, by my fireside, watching the news, listening to my babies sleeping upstairs, my heart goes out to you all.

Please. Tonight. When you lay your babies down to sleep, however old they are, kiss them, tell them you love them, and hold them a little while. And I truly hope that tonight, tomorrow or the next day, your children don't find out how evil madmen can be.

Goodnight and God Bless,
Rest in Peace Little Ones.

A Father of Two
Lockerbie.

What the bloody hell are you wankers thinking? That the us goes and targets nothing but Iraqi kids in playgrounds? Get real and let the US remove this threat and help the nations. Oh yeah, and you cry so much about sensorship, let's see if you post this note on your site!

Erm, I take it you mean 'censorship'?

The point is that the war is not legally sanctions, nor morally justified. Saddam was put there by the U.S. (as was the Taliban), and now that has gone wrong. As a result, the U.S. will do what it always does, impose another regime on the people.

Ultimately, this is a war for U.S. interests, and we want no part of it.