Obama on Critics: ‘They Have No Compunction About Being Repeatedly Wrong’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

"I know it's easy to play on people's fears. To magnify threats. To compare any attempt at diplomacy to Munich. But none of these arguments hold up. They didn't back in 2002 or 2003. They shouldn't now. [Applause]  The same mindset in many cases offered by the same people. Who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong led it to a war that did more to strengthen Iran, more to isolate the United States than anything we have done in the decades before or since. It's a mindset out of step with the traditions of American foreign-policy, where we exhaust diplomacy before war, and based matters of war and peace in the cold light of truth."