Democrats to hear from Iraq vets
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say that while they oppose the Iraq war, they promise to offer returning veterans all the help they need.
The Democratic presidential candidates will get a chance to hear directly from eight young veterans, including one from Massachusetts, this week on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war, MTV and the Associated Press announced today.
The separate segments with Obama and Clinton are to be taped in Pennsylvania and air for the first time at 6 p.m. Thursday on MTV as part of its "Choose or Lose" effort to mobilize more than 20 million 18-30 year-olds to vote. The eight vets include Max Nitze of Cambridge.
Also, Obama's campaign announced this afternoon that he will make two "major" speeches on Iraq -- one on Wednesday about the war and national security near Fort Bragg in North Carolina, which holds its primary on May 6, and another Thursday about the war and the economy in Charleston, West Va., a state which votes May 13.
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Good, I hope Barrack will embrace the fact that Saddam deceived 12 years of diplomacy and corrupted the very organization overseeing that diplomacy. Once Barrack embraces those facts, I want him to explain why he felt more diplomacy was the solution. If not, he can explain why a "contained" man (Saddam) would've corrupted the UN's Oil for Food Program.
Facts are facts, and those say Saddam was a deceitful S.O.B. that can't be trusted, was not contained and would've been dealt with sooner or later. But, kicking the foreign policy can down the road is the democrat way.
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3 candidates left in the race. Hillary Clinton is the smartest, most articulate, best qualified and most experienced.
One might argue that John McCain has more experience, but he is on the wrong side of the issues.
The democrats would be fools not to put up their best challenger to McCain and that person is certainly Hilary Clinton.
Obama is a great speaker, but he is way too inexperienced for a job like this.