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THE ISSUE: IRAQ

Hillary Clinton

• Has opposed a troop increase in Iraq • Has pledged to begin withdrawing troops within 60 days of being elected, and says she will have "nearly all" of the troops home by her first year in office. • Has opposed using congressional spending power to end the war • Voted for the war in 2002 and has subsequently refused to apologize for it More from Clinton's website Clinton's bio, campaign coverage

Mike Gravel

• Says he was one of the first elected officials to publicly oppose the planned invasion of Iraq in 2002 • Appeared on MSNBC prior to the invasion insisting that intelligence showed that there were no weapons of mass destruction • Has called for an immediate and orderly withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq combined with aggressive diplomacy to end sectarian violence More from Gravel's website Gravel's bio, campaign coverage

Barack Obama

• Has supported capping troop levels at 130,000 • If elected, pledges to immediately begin bringing troops home and to complete the withdrawal within 16 months. • Opposed the war while he was an Illinois state senator in 2002, but has voted for some $300 billion in war funding since entering the Senate in 2005 video Obama talks about Iraq More from Obama's website Obama's bio, campaign coverage