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GO LINDSEY, MCCANE, CHENEY, BUSH! TODAYS GREENVILLE NEW American lives should not be put at risk in Iraq Your June 19 editorial regard­ing the collapse of Iraq may win the prize for the most irrational to date. The fact that you spiced up the editorial with several quotes from Sen. Lindsey Graham made the limited credibility of your position sink to new depths. I could not think of anyone with less credibility on the Middle East, unless it were one of his other cronies like John McCain, Paul Wolfowitz, or Dick Cheney. If you follow Graham around the talk show circuit, you can get a sense of the inconsistencies in his positions. He advocates en­gaging with Iran to promote the growing partnership between Nouri al-Maliki and Iran to fight ISIS. The same guy was staunch­ly against any negotiations with Iran last month. As a Vietnam veteran, I re­member sitting in front of the TV in 1975 watching the heli­copter airlift from the American embassy, and asking myself was all this worth the loss of 58,000 U.S. military. On reflection, I realized that the political blun­der in Vietnam was not worth one more life or one more casu­alty. Clearly, Iraq was a blunder based on lies and misrepresenta­tions. To perpetuate the scenario is asinine. I never thought I would quote Glenn Beck, but he actually made sense when he said recently, “Not one more life. Not one more life. Not one more dollar, not one more airplane, not one more bullet, not one more Marine, not one more arm or leg or eye. Not one more.” Probably the only foreign policy decision made by George W. Bush with which I agreed was signing the Status of Forces Agreement which guaranteed the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by the end of 2011. By the way, for the record, that decision was not Barack Obama’s as implied in your editorial. The truth is that Maliki would not agree to a SFA extending the U.S. forces beyond 2011. Let’s admit, once and for all, that we have no business in Iraq (and Syria, Iran and Afghani­stan) and stop sending our troops to die for no clear objective. Daniel G. Gough Greenville
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:54:06 +0000

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