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On the recordJuly 2, 2008
I think what's happened is that the McCain campaign primed the pump with the press to suggest that somehow we were changing our policy when we hadn't.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama accuses the McCain campaign of manipulating the press to create the impression that he is changing his policy on Iraq.

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