SIR - BLAIR and his ministers are blaming France and the French President because they did not have it all their own way.

In reality we should be saluting Mr Chirac and the French, for they had the foresight to see that the world would be an even more dangerous place than it has already become if Bush and his war machine were given any veneer of legitimacy.

With Bush having taken control of the White House, by extremely questionable means, it is now the USA which is the number one danger to world peace.

France can stand proud in contrast to the moral bankruptcy that Blair and his cronies have reduced Britain to.

Marc Delaney Vincent Close Barry