Barack Obama actually said...

Our goal is not to build a country in America's image or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban.

Obama explains the rationale behind the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan.

04/30/2012

More Barack Obama Quotes

We have to come together -- not as Republicans and Democrats -- but as Americans to turn the page in Iraq.

President Bush was wrong when he took us to war.

It is long past time to end a war that never should have started.

I opposed this war from the beginning.