I SHARE Iain R Thomson's belief (Please don't vote for warmongers, Letters, April 23) that an independent Scotland would not have involved itself in the world's current conflicts, and most certainly would not have invaded and bombed Iraq in 2003. That despicable and illegal US/UK led war plunged Iraq, an innocent country, into the horrific situation in which it finds itself today, and helped destabilise the entire region with tragic consequences for the rest of the world.

It is a deep stain on the legal systems of both the US and the UK that neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair have had to answer for their crimes in a court of law. Jeremy Corbyn's apology for the Iraq war was too little and came too late, but Mr Corbyn should at the very least have put in motion the mechanism to expel Mr Blair from the Labour Party, and his failure to do so speaks volumes about his leadership.

Ruth Marr

Stirling.