Torture / Suicide Bombs

This is an unpublished letter to The Guardian in response to A.L.Kennedy's column on torture on 26th July.

Dear Editor,

A.L.Kennedy's column on torture (Guardian, Tuesday) was grimly entertaining. But is true that torture doesn't work? Okay, if you want the truth, no it doesn't. But if all you want is any old rubbish you can use to justify your policies of imperialism it works just fine, thank you, as Craig Murray has shown us with Uzbekistan.

And while I'm at it, just a quick point about suicide bombs. Mr Blair has told us their use can never be justified. So let us just hope that the terrorists do not get hold of any cluster bombs. Blair has already used them against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, so they must be a legitimate means to mass murder innocent people.

Yours faithfully,

Grouchy.