SUGGESTED ACTION:
The goal of Media Lens is to promote rationality, compassion and respect for others. In writing letters to journalists, we strongly urge readers to maintain a polite, non-aggressive and non-abusive tone.
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir
Why have you ignored the authoritative claims of UNSCOM inspectors and others to the effect that Iraq was “fundamentally disarmed” by December 1998? In 1999, a United Nations Panel reported:
"[I]n spite of well-known difficult circumstances, UNSCOM and IAEA have been effective in uncovering and destroying many elements of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes in accordance with the mandate provided by the Security Council... UNSCOM has achieved considerable progress in establishing material balances of Iraq's proscribed weapons. Although important elements still have to be resolved, the bulk of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes has been eliminated." (Report of the First Panel, Established pursuant to the Note by the President of the Security Council on 30 January 1999 (S/1999/100), http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/Amorim%20Report.htm )
The goal of Media Lens is to promote rationality, compassion and respect for others. In writing letters to journalists, we strongly urge readers to maintain a polite, non-aggressive and non-abusive tone.
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir
Why have you ignored the authoritative claims of UNSCOM inspectors and others to the effect that Iraq was “fundamentally disarmed” by December 1998? In 1999, a United Nations Panel reported:
"[I]n spite of well-known difficult circumstances, UNSCOM and IAEA have been effective in uncovering and destroying many elements of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes in accordance with the mandate provided by the Security Council... UNSCOM has achieved considerable progress in establishing material balances of Iraq's proscribed weapons. Although important elements still have to be resolved, the bulk of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes has been eliminated." (Report of the First Panel, Established pursuant to the Note by the President of the Security Council on 30 January 1999 (S/1999/100), http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/Amorim%20Report.htm )