This is in response to the letter about the peace rally ("Saturday's rally is worth supporting," SN 2/14). You say thousands of Iraqis have died because of trade sanctions since the Gulf War. How many people have died because of Saddam's diabolical dictatorship?

This is a man who uses chemical weapons on his own people.

This is a man who has toyed with the United States and the United Nations for 12 years, and it's wrong. Saddam is the hateful, evil dictator, not Bush.

Although no one wants war, it is time for Saddam to stop playing his little games, comply with the U.N. weapons inspectors and be removed from power.

The only way the world is going to advance and move forward is if this madman is removed from power and a stable, democratic government is established. We owe it to ourselves, to world peace and, most of all, to the innocent Iraqis being killed every day under Saddam's evil regime.

Allison Thompson
history sophomore