Barack Obama actually said...

"As the U.S. redeploys from Iraq, we can recapture lost influence in the Middle East."

"I opposed this war from the beginning - in part because I believed that giving this President the open-ended authority to invade Iraq would lead to the open-ended occupation we find ourselves in today..."

"It is far too dangerous to have nuclear weapons in the hands of a radical theocracy."

"The time has come for us to seize those opportunities."