Obama ties Iran deal opponents to Iraq war

Obama: “You’re going to hear a lot of ads against this deal, backed by tens of millions of dollars in advertising. If the rhetoric sounds familiar, it should, for many of the people campaigning for the war in Iraq” now oppose the deal.

“Of course, those calling for war label themselves strong and decisive while dismissing those who disagreed as weak, even appeasers.”

“More than a decade later we still live with the consequences of the decision to invade Iraq. Our troops achieved every mission they were given. But thousands of lives were lost, tens of thousands ruined. That doesn’t count the lives lost among Iraqis. Nearly a trillion dollars were spent.”

“Ironically, the single greatest beneficiary in the region of that war was the Islamic Republic of Iran, which saw its strategic position strengthened by the removal of its adversary Saddam Hussein.”