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Barack Obama: It should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq…

On the recordJuly 14, 2008
It should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticizes the focus on Iraq in the context of the war on terror.

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