Experience can be a dangerous thing

Larry Remener
Published: June 6, 2008

In his May 30 letter, Tim Singstock urges us to vote for John McCain, because he is experienced and Barack Obama is not.

I could not agree more. In fact, I would argue that McCain is every bit as experienced as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who together engineered the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in U.S.
history, the never ending quagmire in Iraq.

And in the lead up to the Iraq war, which U.S. senator joined the White House in what President Bush’s own former spokesman,Scott McClellan, calls a “propaganda campaign” designed to deceive the
American people into believing Iraq posed an imminent threat to the U.S.?

Good old “experienced” John McCain.

And who had the courage, wisdom, and foresight to warn us precisely what would happen if we blindly followed Bush/McCain?

Young, inexperienced Barrack Obama.

And five years later,  who continues to deceive the American people on Iraq? On May 29, “straight-talking” John McCain told reporters: “I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have
drawn down to pre-surge levels.”

The truth is that prior to the surge there were 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; now there are 155,000. According to the Pentagon, even after the last planned reductions are completed later this year, 140,000
troops will remain in Iraq — more than were there before the surge.

And guess who is leading the new and improved propaganda campaign to entangle us in yet another senseless and endless war by scaring us into believing that a third-rate country like Iran is a military
threat to the world’s only superpower. 

John McCain.

So be sure to vote for John McCain in November. He has the experience to look you straight in the eye — and lie.

LARRY REMENER

Woodbridge