Readers' forum: Ending war

Published: Wednesday, Nov. 23 2011 12:00 a.m. MST

President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.

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President Obama has finally put an end to the madness George Bush started — $1 trillion spent and many thousand young Americans either dead or mangled. All we have to show for it is a resentful population in Iraq and a greatly strengthened government in Iran. Thank you, Obama. It takes more brains and courage to end a war than to start one.

Sam Walleson

Holladay

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embarrassed Utahn!

Salt Lake City, UT

Yet strangely, in Utah, GW is still given high marks and Obama is called things like "socialist, marxist, communist, community-organizer". While we were busy spending money on Halliburton, and rebuilding a country we bombed to smithereens More..

5:09 a.m. Nov. 23, 2011
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liberal larry

salt lake City, utah

I think that President Obama is experiencing a lesson learned by Humpty Dumpty, it will take more than 4 years to repair a nation that Bush/Cheney spent almost 8 years destroying!

7:20 a.m. Nov. 23, 2011
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Irony Guy

Bountiful, Utah

Just a temporary lull. If Romney gets into the WH, we'll be facing a truly catastrophic showdown with Iran. So keep your boots on, soldiers...

6:14 a.m. Nov. 23, 2011
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