国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

Obama returns to Clinton's war vote

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-25 13:38

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Democrat Barack Obama suggested Thursday that Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot be trusted to make good judgments on national security and military matters, citing her Iraq war vote.


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., campaigns during a town hall meeting in Beaufort, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. [Agencies]

Obama, accusing the New York senator of trying "to rewrite history," said Clinton still contends that her 2002 vote authorizing military intervention in Iraq was "not really a vote for war."

"She cast her vote after failing to read the national intelligence estimates on Iraq," which raised doubts in some lawmakers' minds about the justification of ousting Saddam Hussein, Obama said during a discussion with armed service members.

Obama, who was in the Illinois Senate at the time, publicly opposed the invasion.

"We need accountability in our leaders," said Obama, now a US senator from Illinois. "You can't undo a vote for war just because the war stopped being popular."

Obama has been campaigning across South Carolina this week ahead of the state's Democratic presidential primary on Saturday.

A poll released Thursday evening showed Obama still leading Clinton 38 percent to 30 percent, but his support among men had dropped by half in just a week. Obama is supported by 10 percent of likely male voters now, and the rest of his male support shifted to John Edwards, according to the McClatchy-MSNBC poll.

Obama said voters "need to judge us on the judgments we've made and the lessons we've learned." Instead of saying her vote was wrong, Obama said, Clinton "has simply blamed the civilian and military leaders who carried out the policy she authorized."

Clinton has said her vote was intended to strengthen President Bush's hand in building international pressure against Hussein, not to approve a prompt invasion.

Zac Wright, a Clinton campaign spokesman in South Carolina, said it was "tough to take his comments too seriously."

"There hasn't been much action to match Senator Obama's talk," Wright said.

Both Hillary Clinton and Obama have voted against legislation that paid for the war but lacked a timetable for troop withdrawal. Obama has supported withdrawal of combat troops in 16 months.



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
漯河市| 专栏| 乃东县| 华亭县| 秦安县| 英德市| 宿州市| 元朗区| 博罗县| 沽源县| 太康县| 兰坪| 长岛县| 陵水| 乐平市| 岳普湖县| 修武县| 酉阳| 兴国县| 油尖旺区| 南靖县| 边坝县| 汤原县| 弥渡县| 平泉县| 静安区| 即墨市| 衡阳市| 永善县| 共和县| 左云县| 徐州市| 许昌市| 邛崃市| 若尔盖县| 朝阳区| 大宁县| 绥化市| 濉溪县| 大余县| 福建省|