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I had suspected that Obama was saying something close to what Kerry was saying in 2004 about what to do going forward. The short quote the Clinton's used that there was little difference from Bush on this made no sense - except in the goal - a stable Iraq (which Bush said he was working towards. (Kerry clearly wasn't fo what Bush was doing - he wouldn't have called for Rumsfeld's firing if he was. But that was the Bush and media lie. Now we see the Clintons doing the same thing - but adding Obama.) This poster gives the entire Obama quote.
"Hillary said last night that Obama "said he agreed with Bush on the war in Iraq." Here are the actual facts: From the Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2004- Obama, a state senator from Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, opposed the Iraq invasion before the war. But he now believes U.S. forces must remain to stabilize the war-ravaged nation--a policy not dissimilar to the current approach of the Bush administration. The problem, Obama said, is the low regard for Bush in the international community. "How do you stabilize a country that is made up of three different religious and in some cases ethnic groups, with minimal loss of life and minimum burden to the taxpayers?" Obama said. "I am skeptical that the Bush administration, given baggage from the past three years, not just on Iraq. . . . I don't see them having the credibility to be able to execute. I mean, you have to have a new administration to execute what the Bush administration acknowledges has to happen." Now how does that translate to Obama agreeing with Bush on the war?"
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