Both Edwards and Clinton are faced with the difficult task of reconciling their current positions on Iraq with their 2002 votes authorizing the President to go to war. Clinton stands by her vote, Edwards apologizes, but neither was astute enough at the time to foresee the current mess or stand up to political pressures to appear patriotic and tough on national security issues.

How would Obama have voted? Would he have caved to political pressure, like most Democrats, and voted to give Bush the power to invade? Watch the video below for your answer. He understands the importance of aggressively containing Saddam but predicts the current Sunni-Shia conflict and warns against giving the president a carte blanch for preemptive invasion.