Barack Obama on Iraq, Opposition from the Start

[Pirate Smile]

Run time: 03:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpKmQCCwB8   Posted on YouTube: March 19, 2007 By YouTube Member: BarackObamadotcom Views on YouTube: 391492   Posted on DU: March 20, 2007 By DU Member: Pirate Smile Views on DU: 497

 
"Barack Obama opposed this war before it even began. Watch clips of his opposition before and after the war as well as his plan for moving forward."

[Hav]

1. .

Bookmarked.
Because I'm sure we will hear the claim (based on a quote taken out of context) again that he didn't know what he had done if he were in the Senate in 2002.

[never cry wolf]

2. Bookmark this one too then

Delivered on 26 October 2002 in Chicago at Federal Plaza at an anti Iraq war rally organized by the ANSWER coalition.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Barack_Obama's_Iraq_Speech

snip--------
I don’t oppose all wars.

After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this Administration’s pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.