Obama: "There is room for disagreement on that initial decision to vote for the IWR"

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Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Obama: "There is room for disagreement on that initial decision to vote for the IWR"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4490984#4490984
4490984, Obama: "There is room for disagreement on that initial decision to vote for the IWR"
Posted by Proud2BAmurkin on Fri Feb-08-08 08:27 PM

MR. RUSSERT: You were not in the Senate in October of 2002. You did give a speech opposing the war. But Senator Clinton’s campaign will say since you’ve been a senator there’s been no difference in your record. And other critics will say that you’ve not been a leader against the war, and they point to this: In July of ‘04, Barack Obama, “I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don’t know,” in terms of how you would have voted on the war. And then this: “There’s not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.” That was July of ‘04. And this: “I think” there’s “some room for disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war.” It doesn’t seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have voted for it.

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