October 23rd, 2012
06:53 AM ET
8 years ago
CNN Fact Check: Romney, Obama and Iraq
(CNN) - Although it has been over for nearly a year now, the war in Iraq continued to be a flash point in Monday night's debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"You say that you're not interested in duplicating what happened in Iraq," said Obama, a Democrat who opposed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "But just a few weeks ago, you said you think we should have more troops in Iraq right now. ... You said that we should still have troops in Iraq to this day."
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If romney and the gop were president, we would still be in Iraq and loseing more troops ,don't you realize cheney is still calling the shots for romney .the gop goof party is done in the gop train wreck in two weeks !!!