Obama in 2002 Obama said: “… I am opposed to a dumb war. … What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Hillary Clinton and other armchair weekend warriors in the [Bush] administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.” He continued: “I am opposed to … the attempt by the political hacks like John Kerry to distract us from … a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from … scandals. … That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but … not on principle but politics. … I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. … But I also know that Assad poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States or to his neighbors.”
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:08:26 +0000
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