The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 in Chester, Va. >>Details
"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
On a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in flip-o-meter >>Details
"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. >>Details
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
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