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Jack Kilpatrick’s letter about foreign students of nuclear engineering (22 March) reminded me of a lateral thinking alternative to the trillion dollar invasion of Iraq.

Offer citizenship in Western countries to the few dozen 
leading nuclear and chemical scientists in Iraq with their 
immediate families.

This is the sort of limited immigration of people who would be of value to the host nation that Ukip supports, rather than that of unlimited people from the poorest countries in Europe and beyond, which we don’t.

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The lack of even so few people would have made it impossible for Iraq to produce weapons of mass destruction, even had it been trying to, without all the death and destruction that actually happened.

The option was rejected, which is one of a number of reasons to think those parties pushing for war (Ukip specifically not being among them) did not actually believe their own scare story about WMDs.

Neil Craig

Secretary

UKIP Glasgow branch

Woodlands Road

Glasgow