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On the recordSeptember 10, 2008
What President Bush and Senator McCain don't understand is that the central front in the war on terror is not in Iraq and it never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the terrorists who hit us on 9/11 are still plotting attacks.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama argues that the focus of the war on terror should be on Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq.

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