Summary
A STRANGE thing has happened to your letters page. At first I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but then it slowly dawned on me. Over the past three days [January 31-February 2] there has been no mention of Iraq in your letters columns. Why should this be? Up until Sunday's democratic elections your page was fair abristle with indignant letter-writers quick to inform the readers about everything that had gone wrong, was going wrong, or was about to go wrong in that country. But now that we have had the biggest success story to come out of Iraq in nearly two years your letterwriters seem to have developed a strange case of writer's block.
Such an occasion I thought would have merited a f lood of letters praising the courage of the Iraqi people for facing down the insurgents and putting their lives at risk to exercise their democratic rights. So what has happened? Is it just a case of some people being unable to stomach the thought of something actually going right in Iraq's fledgling democracy, or is it a case of "any good news is bad news when it concerns Iraq"?See the full content of this document
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Silence About Something Going Right in Iraq
John Morrison, 7 Gladstone Place, Kirkcudbright.
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