Lest anyone thinks I am pro-Saddam Hussein, I make it clear that I am a democrat, I hope, to the extreme. I do not accept under any circumstances that a dictatorship should be allowed to exist or receive succour from any other nation but what about Pinochet? We accepted him because we did not know what was happening. What is incumbent on us, however, is that we are not blinded by the fog of propaganda through which we must be able to get through and judge for ourselves. We will lack information because at this stage we know that everything coming from the theatre of war is being sanitised and that it will be a long time before we fully realise what collateral damage means. It will mean mangled bodies and corpses on every street corner. Am I exaggerating? We need only look at other conflicts to realise that we are not talking about tens, hundreds or thousands of people. Let us extend our sympathy to each human being who will be killed in the conflict, regardless of their position.