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Three standards

Sir, — The Bush administration does not have one standard but three — one for friends, one for enemies and another one for its own. The wars that the U.S. has declared during the last six decades have not been on its soil. Calling fiercely independent people terrorists is nothing short of blasphemy. Have the American leaders forgotten their past? Haven't they terrorised and exterminated the American Indians systematically and finally banished them to reservations?

George W. Bush cannot get away with the all-round misery he is causing to the humanity all over the world — be it Afghanistan or Iraq. The Iraqi leadership may be bad. But it is for the Iraqis to deal with it.

P.Karunakar Rao,

Visakhapatnam, A.P.

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Sir, — Though one may be deeply depressed by the manner in which the U.S. President, George W. Bush, has chosen to forfeit the goodwill of the whole world by yielding to his hegemonistic impulse, he deserves to be congratulated on two counts. He has won over the gentleman Prime Minister of the U.K. to his side and has been able to unite nearly the entire Muslim world as never before. Even Osama bin Laden managed to unite only the Muslim fundamentalists. Whether Mr. Bush's achievement is positive or negative, it is for historians to decide.

T. Raghavan,

Slough, U.K.

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