Bruce Mitchell is typical of the far left (letter, Dec. 16). Where did he get his information?

I was in the Army in Belgium when the hostages were taken in Iran. A lieutenant colonel I had worked for, and who was supposed to be put in charge of my detachment, was one of the American Embassy staff taken hostage.

I had several friends who hid on rooftops in Tehran while the radicals stole everything they owned. At least they got out with their lives, and were on the last plane out of Iran before the complete collapse of the embassy.

Miller must be too young to remember the total ineptness of the worst president this country has ever known, Jimmy Carter. We were ashamed to be Americans. The hostages were kept 444 days and were released five minutes after President Ronald Reagan was sworn in.

I know Carter claims to have been instrumental in their release. No one with any intelligence should believe he had anything to do with it. He did sign the “Algiers Accords,” which stripped our intelligence service. It is Carter’s fault that U.S. intelligence was set back 30 years, and cost us dearly in the 80s and 90s. Not one so-called peace accord negotiated by Carter was worth the paper it was written on.

Do we want more of the Democrats’ lies, and their attempt to rewrite history?

Their greatest tool: tell a lie often enough and it is taken as the truth.

Jim Walker, Auburn