“There is a choice that has emerged in this campaign, one that the American people need to understand. They should ask themselves: who got the single most important foreign policy decision since the end of the Cold War right, and who got it wrong. This is not just a matter of debating the past. It’s about who has the best judgment to make the critical decisions of the future.” – Barack Obama, October 7, 2007 Barack Obama has argued many times over the course of the last two years that his opposing the Iraq War from the start showed his superior judgement, particularly on foreign policy, compared to Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and John McCain. As he outlines in the statement above, he considered support for the Iraq War to be disqualifying. Currently Obama is considering extending Roberts Gates at the Defense department, and is considering one of John Kerry,…
