Greater Nashua

NASHUA - Mayor James Donchess recently expressed his vexation toward Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu for continuing to support the war in Iran. Looking back to October 2002, Donchess said Sununu, who was a congressman at the time, voted in favor of the proposal from then-President George W. Bush to send troops into Iraq. “Sununu gave Bush permission to send our troops into a controversial and ill-informed conflict that turned into a strategic failure and took the lives of thousands of Americans, including 32 that had ties to New Hampshire,” Donchess said during the Oct. 15 press conference hosted by the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Now, 24 years later, Sununu has backed President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran, a move that was made without Congressional authorization. “Sununu is reminding us that he’s still the same rubber stamp that he ...