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ABC News' Sunlen Miller, Eloise Harper and Raelyn Johnson Report: Sen. Barack Obama wants everyone to know he was against the Iraq war from the beginning. And he won't stop making speeches until they do.
Obama, D-Ill., marked the five-year anniversary of Congress' Iraq war vote with the latest address outlining lessons of the Iraq war, and blasting his opponent, Sen. Hillary Clinton. But this time he marked the Democratic nomination frontrunner by name.
Singling out Clinton four times separate times, Obama used her vote in favor of the Iraq war to highlight what he calls the "great differences" between them.
"Leading Democrats, including Senator Clinton, echoed the erroneous line that there was connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda," Obama told a crowd at Drake University in Iowa on Friday.
The first-term senator pointed out that many members of Congress did not even read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting and, again referencing Clinton’s affirmative vote, Obama said, "She says that she wasn’t really voting for war back in 2002, she was voting for more diplomacy."
"But all of us know what was being debated in the Congress is the fall of 2002… the headlines on October 12, 2002 did not read: 'Congress authorizes diplomacy in Iraq'; the headlines on October 12, 2002, read 'Congress backs war.'"
Clinton’s campaign fired back, saying Obama "has abandoned the politics of hope to engage in the same old attack politics."
Campaign spokesman Phil Singer added, "If Senator Obama really believed that this measure gave the President a blank check for war he should have been there, speaking out, and fighting against it. Instead he did nothing, remained totally silent, and spoke out only after the vote to engage in false attacks against Senator Clinton."
Former Senator John Edwards' campaign quickly joined the fray.
Chris Kofinis, Edwards' communications director, said in a statement, "It is very disappointing that Senator Clinton seems determined to hedge her responses on the issues that matter most to the American people," before concluding, "The American people deserve a president who will tell them the truth and offer straight answers, not flip-flops and political double-speak."
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