Senator Barack Obama talked about foreign policy as well as congressional votes governing the use of force in Iraq and other votes that gave President Bush “the open-ended authority to wage war that he uses to this day.” He also criticized other presidential candidates, although not by name, for trying to “spin” their votes and change the rational given for their support of military involvement in Iraq.


This event at the DePaul University Student Activities Center was part of a four-day “Judgment and Experience Tour” tour to mark the fifth anniversary of a speech he gave at a rally in Chicago opposing the war in Iraq.