FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Wednesday for misidentifying Iraqi extremists, saying he fails to understand the war has emboldened U.S. enemies.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the war took center stage on the U.S. campaign trail.
Obama attacked both McCain and his Democratic opponent, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, as representing conventional thinking in Washington that needs to be changed in the November election. McCain and Clinton backed a 2002 resolution supporting U.S. military action against Iraq.
(AFP/Menahem Kahana)
Clinton’s campaign spokesman Phil Singer accused Obama of taking “practically no action to end the war until he started his White House run while Senator Clinton has been a consistent critic of Iraq for many years.”
As a senator from Illinois, Obama has voted for imposing timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, a position Clinton also has been supporting.
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the war took center stage on the U.S. campaign trail.
Obama attacked both McCain and his Democratic opponent, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, as representing conventional thinking in Washington that needs to be changed in the November election. McCain and Clinton backed a 2002 resolution supporting U.S. military action against Iraq.
Clinton’s campaign spokesman Phil Singer accused Obama of taking “practically no action to end the war until he started his White House run while Senator Clinton has been a consistent critic of Iraq for many years.”
As a senator from Illinois, Obama has voted for imposing timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, a position Clinton also has been supporting.
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