Article: Illinois senator Obama says Iraq War is being mishandled

Brandon Weisenberger
University Wire
04-17-2006
(Daily Egyptian) (U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said the nation's involvement in Iraq is not being handled correctly by the Bush administration during a visit to the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale campus Friday.

Obama told about 250 people in the Lesar Law School auditorium the U.S. should serve as a moderator between disputing political parties in the venture to establish a government in the "unsteady" Middle East country.

"There is no military solution for Iraq, but there is a political solution," he said.

An opponent to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Obama said an ideal situation would be to have a functional ...

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