Letter: Voters look other way when others sacrifice

Friday, Oct. 6, 2006 | 7:42 a.m.

People who say that we can't cut and run from Iraq are like people who thought we couldn't cut and run from Vietnam.

When President Johnson realized that we could not win in Vietnam, he did not run for re-election in 1968. When Richard Nixon succeeded Johnson and took office, he gave us three years of Henry Kissinger, in Paris, having secret meetings with the Viet Cong.

Nixon should have been impeached for not getting us out of Vietnam as soon as he took office. Instead, after 30,000 more Americans were killed, he was re-elected by a landslide. Voters don't seem to care how many Americans are killed as long as they are in uniform, in another family, in another country.

Jim Riley, Las Vegas

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