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in Syria  In 2002, then Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama said
this about the use of military force in Iraq: "I know that
invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong
international support will only fan the flames of the Middle
East and encourage the worst rather than best impulses in the
Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of al Qaeda. I am
not opposed to all wars; I am opposed to dumb wars."  In 2007,
then presidential candidate Obama offered this: "... because of
a war in Iraq that should never have been authorized and should
never have been waged, we are now less safe than we were before
9/11."  Fast forward to today, and now second-term President
Obama is preparing to launch missiles at Syria with or without
the support of either Congress or the United Nations.
Understanding that experience and a change in jobs have the
ability to change one's perspective