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Essendon says it will defend its players and officials against allegations of drug cheating. The view seems to be that ''everyone knows they are guilty''.

This bellicose insistence that forensic information gathered by the AFL and ASADA is the same as ''proof'' that anti doping violations have been committed is naive. There have been cases in sport and other jurisdictions when, despite meticulously collected evidence presented by prosecutors, a defendant has been found not guilty.

Australia should be governed by the rule of law at all levels of activity not media commentary. The AFL has signed on to a code with ASADA, which in turn is signed in with the regulations of the World Anti Doping Agency. These are mechanisms put in place to ensure that drugs in sport are not tolerated. Essendon ran an ''experimental'' pharmacological program and is now paying the price. Taking the AFL and ASADA to court for its own wrongdoing will only prolong the pain for all.

I feel sorry for players caught up in this sorry mess, but ultimately they must be responsible for what they ingest. As a parent of a junior footballer, I need to see this matter dealt with appropriately so that it may never happen again.

Michelle Van Gerrevink, Pascoe Vale South

A plea for natural justice

Thank you, Essendon chairman Paul Little (pictured above), for injecting some sanity into ASADA's Mad Hatters Tea Party. ASADA seems intent on punishing Essendon, driving it into the football wilderness for a second season even though nobody has yet been convicted of anything.

Essendon was tried and severely punished by the AFL last year. Tossed out of the finals is a harsh punishment for a player. Also, the club was ''fined'' hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost gate takings. If the AFL did the right thing then, I believe ASADA is being unjust by conducting a second trial and punishing the players further.

These men are footballers, nor forensic scientists. They were told by a ''sports scientist'' that the injections were legal. How, without revealing club secrets to an outsider, could they have established anything different? I can only hope, in the interests of natural justice, that Mr Little's court action removes replica hermes jewelry the threat of further sanctions from the unfortunate players.

Arthur Comer, Sebastopol

What are cheap replica hermes the Bombers afraid of?

Paul Little says ''we will not be bullied''. How does ASADA performing hermes clutch replica its regulatory responsibilities constitute bullying? Little looks desperate in clinging to technical procedural elements to avoid facing up to the substance of what are very serious allegations. The only way the suffering will end is if he allows the ASADA process to run its full course.

Elisa Curry, Surrey Hills

Back into Iraq?

''Abbott flags military action in Iraq'' (The Saturday Age, 14/6) fills one with anguish and despair. The United States and its allies invaded Iraq premised on the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The US dropped more than half a million tonnes of bombs, killed between 500,000 and 1 million Iraqis (depending on who did the counting), created 5 million orphans and a similar number of refugees.

This is one of the greatest crimes against humanity, and has been carried out mainly by four Christian nations: the US, Britain, Australia and Canada.

What is happening now is a repetition of the end of the Vietnam War when the communist forces decisively won. Iraq is being taken over by al Qaeda type forces, the enemies of the US.

Not even a single dead Iraqi or American is worth an allied

re entry into military action. Iraq may be a success story in the long run, like Vietnam. Australia should allow this to happen, rather than attempt another military intervention.

Bill Mathew, Parkville

What's not to like?

Tony Abbott says the unemployed must go to where the jobs are. So, send them to fight the bad guys in Iraq. This is a win win situation: we get to join another war overseas, and unemployment rates drop here.

Roy Gordon, Ferny Creek

Clean up our army

I sincerely hope that hermes h bracelet fake Australia's Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison, after his impressive speech on the subject of ending rape in war zones, will now dismiss the hundreds of rapists identified by the various official inquiries who are still employed in the Australian armed forces. Actions speak louder than words.

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