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Plain and simpleâ when she voted as a U.S. senator to authorize the war in Iraq, according to her new memoir. Clintonâs support, in 2002, for the Iraq War Resolution dogged her unsuccessful 2008 run for President against Barack Obama, who opposed the war from the start.
Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Obama was an early opponent of President George W. Bush 's push to go to war with Iraq. Obama was still a state senator when he spoke against a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago's Federal Plaza in October 2002.