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On the recordAugust 6, 2007
I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama defends his foreign policy stance against critics.

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