I am writing to correct the misapprehension of one of your readers who wrote in a letter published on Sept. 21 (“Politically, Maine isn’t what it used to be“) that the “Democrats always seem to get us into wars and the Republicans bail us out.”
Just to set the record straight, the Republicans were responsible for the Spanish-American War (1898), the invasion of Panama (1989-1990), the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), the War in Afghanistan (2002-2022) and the Iraq War (2003-2011).
The writer is entitled to his opinion but not at the expense of history.
Ellen Golden
Woolwich
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