Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senator, Illinois, Democrat
Barack Obama was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. Prior to that, he served in the Illinois State Senate. He is currently a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. The following is from Senator Obama’s statement during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s September 11, 2007, hearing on the Iraq report presented by General David Petraeus and Admiral Ryan Crocker. We’ve heard from the administration and from many of ourSenate colleagues this summer that we need to give the President’s surgestrategy more time before we can make a decision to redeploy our troops.However, two reports…
