Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Iraq veterans are taking on Obama over the Iran deal
    By Josh Rogin
                       
Retired Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett
               
A group of Iraq war veterans is launching a million-dollar effort to oppose President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, trying to counter the president's argument that those who are against the deal are in favor of war.
Obama has said recently that there are only two camps: those who support the deal versus those who would prefer a bloody and costly war like the conflict in Iraq. The new ad campaign complicates that, asserting that the deal itself will lead to more war. And the voices putting forth that case do not prefer war; they are soldiers who have had enough of it.
The group, Veterans Against the Deal, was founded last month as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, and it does not disclose its donors. Its national campaign starts today, including television ads in states whose members of Congress are undecided on the Iran deal. Lawmakers will vote on it in September.
The first of the group's videos features retired Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett, who was badly injured by an Iranian bomb while serving in Iraq in 2005.

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