I am a witness in an antiterrorist case, Atchley v. AstraZeneca, in the U.S. District Court, and I will be voting for Bernie Sanders.

The plaintiffs in the case are the families of hundreds of U.S. soldiers and civilians killed and wounded in Iraq. The defendants are Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical Systems, Pfizer, La-Roche, AstraZeneca, etc. (Big Pharma). There is strong evidence that Big Pharma paid millions of dollars in bribes to enter the lucrative war-torn Iraqi health care market and that Big Pharma knew the bribes were financing terrorists in Iraq who were killing and wounding U.S. soldiers and civilians.

On Oct. 9, 2002, then-U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders said he would not vote for a resolution supporting the invasion of Iraq: “The question, Mr. Speaker, is not whether we like Saddam Hussein or not. The question is whether he presents an imminent threat to the American people and whether a unilateral invasion of Iraq will do more harm than good.”

Both political parties, Congress and the executive branch should have listened to Sanders. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and tens of thousands wounded. Millions of Iraqi civilians were killed, wounded, impoverished and displaced. We need Bernie Sanders in the White House not only in the U.S. quest for peace and justice but in our struggle against the corporate culture that stoops to aiding and abetting terrorists in killing and wounding U.S. soldiers and civilians serving their country.

ARTHUR BRENNAN

Weare

(The writer is a veteran, retired N.H. superior court judge, and was the director of the U.S. Embassy Office of Accountability and Transparency in 2007.)