No Do Overs on Issues like War

[illinoisprogressive]

Presidential contender Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed his Democratic rivals' change of heart on the Iraq war as too little too late, while Hillary Rodham Clinton urged a quick end to U.S. involvement in the conflict.

Obama, an Illinois senator, and Clinton, a New York senator, focused on the nearly 4 1/2 year war in dueling speeches only a few city blocks apart in the first-in-the-nation voting state of Iowa. Senators will have a chance to vote in the coming days on whether to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, where the conflict has claimed more than 3,600 U.S. lives.

"Being a leader means that you'd better do what's right and leave the politics aside because there are no do-overs on an issue as important as war," Obama said, adding that the Iraq war should never should have been authorized or waged.

Obama, then a state lawmaker in Illinois, opposed the war from the start. Clinton voted in 2002 to give President Bush the authority to launch the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, but has said she would have opposed the war if she knew then what she knows now.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/10/politics/p143938D17.DTL&type=politics

[barack4prez]

1. Deja vu

all over again.

[Ethelk2044]

2. He is correct.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

3. He is resorting to the "I was right half a decade ago" card 6 months before the primaries?

This is a very good sign. ;) The IWR is his biggest card. It is to him what Bill is to HRC.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Doesn't Mrs Clinton Want To Keep Troops in Iraq?

Draw down most, be keep a significant number there? I asked this before, nobody answered.

[MalloyLiberal]

5. This was already posted at least once and you know this

SInce you posted in that thread.

You Obama supporters just don't give up huh?