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War with Iran would be many times worse than the Iraq War

War with Iran would be ‘many times worse than the Iraq War’: US senator

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NEW YORK: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is a candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, has warned that war with Iran would be “many times worse than the Iraq War,” in response to a report in The New York Times saying that the Trump administration is reviewing a plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East amid growing tensions with Tehran.

The idea was reportedly spearheaded by John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, who served in the George W. Bush administration at the height of the conflict in Iraq.

“Sixteen years ago, the U.S. committed one of the worst blunders in history of our country by attacking Iraq,” Sanders said in a video recorded live on Periscope and posted to Twitter. He called out Bolton as one of the “leading advocates” of the war, which he called the “biggest foreign policy disaster” in modern U.S. history.

“Now, based on that disaster that he help bring about in Iraq, it appears that John Bolton wants a war in Iran,” Sanders said. “A war in Iran would, in my view, be many times worse than the Iraq War.”

The senator said that he was working to build a coalition in Congress to force President Trump to ask Congress for authorization if he wants to engage in military action in Iran.

Congress authorized Bush to take action in Iraq in 2002, but did not formally declare war. Opponents of the war in Iraq argue that President Bush did not have the constitutional authority to essentially declare war in the country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.