AP: Obama challenges rivals on Iraq war says, "There are no do-overs..."

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Obama Challenges Rivals on Iraq War
By MIKE GLOVER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 10, 2007; 10:30 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa -- 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 and Clinton focused on the four-year-plus war in dueling speeches only a few city blocks apart in the first-in-the-nation voting state of Iowa.

"It will be enormously difficult to invest in jobs and opportunity until we stop spending $275 million a day on this war in Iraq," Obama said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "I believe then and still do that 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, 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.