Boot consistently wrong about Iraq

Re “The pie-in-the-sky report,” Opinion, Dec. 13

There were no people who were against the Iraq war from the beginning who sat on the Baker-Hamilton panel, but the recommendations come from people who at least live in the real world, who are mostly connected to the elder Bush.

Max Boot, on the other hand, was wrong about Iraq, wrong about weapons of mass destruction, wrong about the occupation and dangerously wrong about the edifying effects all this would have on the Middle East.

Why are we still paying attention to these neoconservatives at all? If a doctor diagnoses you as having cancer and prescribes a dangerous treatment for it, and then you go to another doctor who shows that the first diagnosis was wrong and the chemotherapy and surgery were unnecessary, you don’t go back to the first doctor to ask what he thinks. You sue him for every dollar he has, and then you go after his license to practice.

JIM HASSINGER

Glendale

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Neocons like Boot have been consistently wrong for almost four years, starting with their support of the invasion of Iraq and their continued approval of what is obviously a failed and tragic occupation there. One would think that they would be embarrassed by their past performance and would refrain from offering any more advice and, especially, criticism of the Iraq Study Group, and listen to others who don’t have such a dismal record.

MELVIN REIER

Northridge