Obama To Hillary: You Should Have Been Right About Iraq "On Day One"
Barack Obama responded strongly today to Hillary Clinton's speech about Iraq, in which she accused him of choosing "silence" instead of truly opposing the Iraq War until he ran for president. His answer: Hillary is arguing about how to end a war she voted to authorize.
"It's not enough to stand up five years later in the heat of a campaign and say that you're ready on day one – you have to be right on day one," Obama said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
"On the war in Iraq, Senator Clinton's judgment was wrong. If we had followed my judgment, we wouldn't be standing here five years later debating how to end the war in Iraq, because we never would have fought it."
He later added: "I'm not about to allow Senator Clinton to get away with saying this is just about speeches," he said. "Because of that vote, we are less safe and less respected at home."
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