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==Anti-war movement==

==Anti-war movement==

Obama states that he has consistently opposed the [[Iraq War]] since 2002.  In his famous speech delivered in Chicago on October 2, 2002<ref>http://www.barackobama.com/2002/10/02/remarks_of_illinois_state_sen.php</ref> Obama alleged Saddam "has developed [[weapons of mass destruction|chemical and biological weapons]]," but was willing to condone the most hideous use of [[torture]]<ref>[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jackstraw1.html Saddam Hussein's Regime Methods of Torture]</ref> from a man who "butchers his own people." Obama and dismissed [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] as a "dumb war" leaving one commentator to observe, "one would search long and hard for any words from this apostle of hope and change about the palpable benefits that [[democracy]] might bring to the Arabs and Muslims of the Middle East.<ref>[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/obama-s-war-11263 Obama's War], Peter Wehner, ''Commentary'',  April 2008.</ref>

Obama states that he has consistently opposed the [[Iraq War]] since 2002.  In his famous speech delivered in Chicago on October 2, 2002<ref>http://www.barackobama.com/2002/10/02/remarks_of_illinois_state_sen.php</ref> Obama alleged Saddam "has developed [[weapons of mass destruction|chemical and biological weapons]]" but was willing to condone the most hideous use of [[torture]]<ref>[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jackstraw1.html Saddam Hussein's Regime Methods of Torture]</ref> from a man who "butchers his own people." Obama and dismissed [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] as a "dumb war" leaving one commentator to observe, "one would search long and hard for any words from this apostle of hope and change about the palpable benefits that [[democracy]] might bring to the Arabs and Muslims of the Middle East.<ref>[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/obama-s-war-11263 Obama's War], Peter Wehner, ''Commentary'',  April 2008.</ref>

==Charitable Giving==

==Charitable Giving==