Who were you in 2002?

Barry Obambi, pictured with his grandparents, likes to make much ado about his early opposition to the War in Iraq.

Now the media is going Ga Ga over Barry and playing up a speech he made at an ASWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) rally in Chicago on October 26, 2002.

I've read "the speech" and it is a contradiction.

I don’t oppose all wars.

After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this Administration’s pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

To arms Barry, to arms!

I guess he's serving his country by running for President.

You're no Pat Tillman and the scientific community is united in that fact!

What I am opposed to is a rash war.

A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

That, to me, dispels the rash and unprincipled argument.

Let’s fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work...

What a DUMB argument!

Obambi even admitted that Hussein thwarted UN inspection teams all the while repeatedly defying UN resolutions?

What does that "fight" look like?

Interestingly ANSWER doesn't even mention Barry's speech or the Chicago rally in its highlight of 10/26/02 events.

All we hear is radio ga ga
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All we hear is radio ga ga
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