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Obama: "Irresponsible and Frankly Naive," as Hillary Says

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Marcus Gadson

At the end of the day, I find it incredible that Clinton (and others) has the chutzpah to make the charges she has about Obama. If she is so wise, and so clever, and so infinitively more experienced, then how could she have authorized George Bush to go to war without asking for an exit strategy, or at least bothering to read the National Intelligence Estimate? Now that is, irresponsible and frankly naive.

Obama however, demonstrated a prescience and a political courage sorely missing from political leaders in Washington in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. In a 2002 speech Obama said, "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences." That sure doesn't sound naïve to me.

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