Jason Miller
When a criminal has killed your neighbor, and he's on your doorstep telling you that he's going to kill your family, are you going to send the civilian army (police) after him, or are you going to try to make peace by talking it over with him?

Caroline Needham
Nobody wins wars, no war has ever restored life. All wars must end at the negotiating table where all parties go to make peace. The brave in my opinion are the peace makers and negotiators who recognise that anger and hate seldom solve any problems. I am pround of my younger son who demonstrated with me against the war in Washington DC and my older son who demonstrated with his friends in London. None of the protestors I saw were validating the behaviour of an individual ruler in Iraq but rather looking for a non violent solution and one that would not inflict any further damage on the Iraqi population.

Daniel (Spain)
I just want to say that I´d like to have the feeling of Karl. I´m quite pesimist about all this. But I´d like the world knows that the majority of the Spanish people do not agree with our president. The most of us are against war and would like that Bush wouldn't act that way, so overbearing.

John Rothery (New Zealand)
Karl is an idealist, a dreamer. He has a vision of a world without war. In order to try and achieve his vision he is prepared to put his life on the line. I applaud him for that. If one in a hundred who demonstrated against war, were to follow Karls lead it is questionable whether the USA would still proceed.

Mark
The land is already poisoned Louise, The innocents already dead in Halabjah and many other places. We stood back and watched, we did nothing and there were no "human shields" or million people marches for them. It wasn't us who did this, it was Saddam. Hamish may not have forgotten these innocents, but many thousands have. Almost every Iraqi i have spoken to in the US, Canada and here in the UK are in favour of action against Saddam, I have heard many times that the troops will be welcomed as a liberating army, not imperialist invaders, so who exactly is Mr Dallas representing here? Because it doesn't appear to me be the Iraqi people. Have you read some of the articles on the BBCi website "Voices from Iraq"? Perhaps Mr Dallas is a victim of left wing propaganda, so blinded by dislike for an unpopular US leader that he fails to look at the big picture. And isn't the genuine anti war movement in danger of being hijacked? The MAB and other Arab march organisers claim this is a war against Islam and I ask, who has killed more muslims than Saddam? I might also ask, why single out the US for arming Iraq? The former Soviet Union, China, the UK, France and Germany have all supplied weapons to Iraq, some of them even after the first Gulf war. No one wants war, but we can't sit back and do nothing forever. Do you advocate another 12 years? How many more massacres like the one in Halabjah could happen by then?

John
Mr Dallas is right to protest. The US and British Governments have done a wonderful job of focusing discussion on disarming Hussein, whereas in fact the issue is one of American imperialism in the Middle East. The war was decided upon long ago, and the UN is being used as a fig-leaf to give some credibility to an incredibly immoral war. What has become clear over these months is the hypocrisy of our leaders, and the fact that, although the heads of democratic governments, they do not listen to the people who elected them. This protest is worthwhile, but will probably not make a difference. Perhaps it is time to overhaul our own system of democracy.

Hamish
I find this move toward making anyone who opposes military action instantly pro-Saddam most distasteful. I salute Karl Dallas for his openness and humanity...this does not mean I'm ignoring the plight of innocent Iraqis murdered or 'disappeared' by Saddam's regime. But surely by this advanced stage in human evolution we can find a better way to effect change in the world than bombing and killing in the name of peace? (surely the ultimate oxymoron??) I love America and Americans...I also love Iraq and Iraqis...if only both countries had governments worthy of their people then perhaps we wouldn't be on this knife edge? If we were SO concerned about Saddam's barbarous ways why did we arm his regime so completely and also leave the Kurds at his mercy after the last Gulf War? Surely EVERY non-military solution has to be exhausted before the hawks get their chance to try out the latest high-tech purchases of the defence budget. Smart bombs they may be but there are still people underneath everyone of them that lands.

Louise Oldfield
Perhaps Mr Dallas is thinking that the methods proposed to oust Saddam will hurt more innocent civilians than Saddam himself and poison their country for generations. Let's not forget that the US and UK favour a plan to install a US military governor rule post-war Iraq for up to a year, leaving the infrastructure of Saddam's ruling Baath party intact. Will the Shia majority get the chance to vote?

Mark
My friend is from Iraq, his extended family was killed by Saddams regime, he escaped and now lives in Canada. It's a shame his family couldn't experience the "love" Mr Dallas waffles on about. I hope that Mr Dallas can spare a thought for those who were murdered by Saddam, but probably not since validating a war criminal has made Karls "life worthwhile".