It is true that Obama was not yet in the senate for the original Iraq war vote, so we can only speculate what his vote would have been. Support for the war amo

It is true that Obama was not yet in the senate for the original Iraq war vote, so we can only speculate what his vote would have been. Support for the war among his peer moderate Democrats in the senate was near unanimous: Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry all voted in favor. It's not unfair to assume he would have as well. https://progressive.org/op-eds/clinton-s-iraq-war-vote-still-appalls/ https://progressive.org/op-eds/clinton-s-iraq-war-vote-still... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/09/10/kerrys-claim-that-he-opposed-bushs-invasion-of-iraq/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/09/... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/joe-biden-role-iraq-war https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/joe-bi... http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/joe-lieberman-iraq-war http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/joe-lieberman-iraq-war His withdrawal of forces from Iraq for which many give him credit was on the schedule of the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration before he took office. It would likely have happened the same under a McCain administration. He bears 100% of the responsibility for the shit-show that happened in Libya. The US policies that prolonged and worsened the Syrian civil war were birthed under his watch as well. The "we're fighting ISIS" while simultaneously arming anti-government Al-Qaeda-aligned groups was a recipe for disaster. Obama "surged" to double US troop levels in Afghanistan shortly after taking office. Also from this era: The drone assassination program. Lots of extra killing, to no lasting effect. https://www.wired.com/2012/09/surge-report-card/ https://www.wired.com/2012/09/surge-report-card/ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/oba... Let's not pretend that Obama was in any way but rhetorically anti-war.