Bush defends the highest code

PATRICK SEALE might be a writer on Middle East topics, but he knows little about American politics (May 26). If he did, he would not spend time in a vitriolic diatribe against a president who has done just about all that he can because he is working with a Congress, the majority of whom are not of his party and without whose approval he cannot spend money.

Seale would also know that every American president must recognise the huge support for Israel in our country. Seale would also know that no one in America, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, would ever say that the 9/11 disaster was “a gift from the gods”.

Mr Seale has forgotten, in his ignorant blathering, that peace talks in the Middle East predate former President Jimmy Carter. The fact is that we were attacked by 19 militants who have not yet issued any manifesto regarding their actions.