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83. Yes, it is factual. He did say he didn't know how he would have voted on the IWR. Here:

I'm not peddling anything here other than facts.

Obama quote, re IWR:

"I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.'


One article reporting this:

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The question comes up in part because he told The New York Times in a story published July 26, 2004 that "I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.'

Today on CNN, Obama told Candy Crowley that was the only time he ever said anything like that -- and he did it to avoid putting down John Kerry and John Edwards, two senators who had voted to authorize the war and were about to become their party's presidential ticket.

"The only time when I said I'm not sure what I would do if I were in the Senate was right before the Democratic convention, when we had two nominees that obviously I did not want to be criticizing right before they got up and received the nomination," he said.

"But you didn't mean it?" Crowley asked.

"So -- well, no. What I'm suggesting is, everybody had difficult choices to make. And I -- and these were difficult choices. I made the right choice." Obama replied.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2007/10/166381/1#.USVPyjfNmSo

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