Iraq is the defining issue between Sens. Clinton and Obama in this race.

Hillary Clinton, along with many of her Senate colleagues (on both sides of the aisle) voted to authorize force, while some, like Barack Obama stood up strongly against it. Yes, it is in the past, but that is the choice that we have in this election. It’s about judgement.

Some (namely the Clinton campaign) point to the fact that Sen. Obama wasn’t in the Senate at the time, so his opposition was somehow not real and it should be brushed off and discounted.

I believe that Sen. Obama’s judgment was sound and his reasoning was correct when he spoke out against the war in 2002. Listen to the speech that he made back then.

Today, Clinton is bashing Obama because he didn’t do enough after entering Congress to end the war. This is just a silly argument. Watch this video that the Obama campaign put out today - it tells the story of Clinton’s bad judgment when it comes to Iraq.