Bill Clinton in Reuters


On War & Peace: Claims he opposed Iraq war from the beginning

Bill Clinton said he had opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning--a statement that raised eyebrows because he did not seem to take a strong public stance against the war when it started in 2003. “If he did, I don’t think most of us heard about it,” Barack Obama told reporters. [News reports said] Clinton had been briefed by top White House officials privately about war planning in 2003 and he told them he supported the invasion.

For some experts, Clinton’s insistence he was always against the war

Source: Steve Holland, Reuters, “Reason to hope” Nov 30, 2007

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