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As definitive proof he offers one speech he made in 2002 during a reelection campaign for an Illinois senate seat in the most liberal district in the state, so liberal that no other position would have been viable. When he made that speech, Obama was not privy to the briefings by, among others, Secretary of State Colin Powell, in support of the Authorization of Use of

Military Force as a diplomatic tool to push the international community to

impose intrusive inspections on Saddam Hussein

On July 27, 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune on Iraq: "There's not much of

a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage."

In his book, The Audacity of Hope, published in 2006, he wrote, "...on the

merits I didn't consider the case against war to be cut-and- dried." And, in 2006, he clearly said, "I'm always careful to say that I was not in the Senate, so perhaps the reason I thought it was such a bad idea was that I didn't have the benefit of US intelligence. And for those who did, it might have led to a different set of choices."