In reply to Blairs favourite Welshman, I was born into an artifical state, set up by the British Government in 1922 for 50 years discrimination was all we knew.

In jobs, education, even barred from any form of politics through the use of gerrymander, the city of Derry had a population threequarters Irish Nationalists and the set-up was such that the Unionists were forever in the magority.

The Judical system along with the RUC Police force, ran the six counties of Ulster as they wished, a blind eye was turned on this evil by a British Government not in the least interested until the Nationalists began peaceful protests against the system only to be hammered down by the RUC.

The tactics used by the Brits involved the use of local unionist para-militaries to do their killing, by setting up any member of the local nationalist population that were becoming a nuisance, this included two Lawyers Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.

Yes, we live in the UK but it was a long way removed from Cardiff or Glasgow.

What we see going on in Iraq is a carbon copy of what went on in the six counties of occupied Ulster.Ard Mhacha.