Republican Presidential Candidate
John McCain position on Iraq
• As a senator in October 2002, McCain voted to support a joint
resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against
Iraq.
• He remains a very stark supporter of President Bush's policies but
has criticized the management of the war.
• McCain supports the present troop increase and favors maintaining
troop levels. He has also defended moral justifications for the
war.
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Democratic Presidential Candidate
Barack Obama position on Iraq
• Obama was an stark opponent of the war as an Illinois state senator
and campaigned against the war in his 2004 Senate bid. He had said, I
am not opposed to all wars, I am opposed to dumb wars.
• Obama is opposed to the present troop increase, supports a phased
redeployment. In January 2007, he introduced the Iraq War
De-Escalation Act with a goal of removing all combat troops from Iraq
by March 31, 2008.
• He has said in the April, 2007 debate, "there's no military
solution to this. We've got to have a political solution, begin a
phased withdrawal, and make certain that we've got benchmarks in
place so that the Iraqi people can make a determination about how
they want to move forward."
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