Only one of the three candidates has any military experience, John McCain who was a prisoner of war POW, during the Vietnam War. Those of us who are old enough see great similarities between the Iraq War and the Vietnam War which continued through my entire childhood. I just don’t know if Clinton or Obama have the experience that it is going to take to get us out of the Iraq War. I have listed their basic viewpoints on the war, some of which are very contradictory.
Hillary Clinton: Opposed troop increase. No timetable for completing withdrawal. Voted for war.
Barack Obama: Combat troops out in 16 months. Spoke against war at start.
John McCain: Early critic of how the war was fought backed troop increase. Opposes scheduled pullout.
McCain directly confronted the biggest obstacle to his White House ambitions: his unyielding support of a war that more than two-thirds of the country has turned against. |
