With Barack Obama sworn in as the 45th President of the Unites States, there will be much debate over what he believes in. Some clues about what Obama believes in may be found in these extracts from his speeches across the years.

Barack Obama on the War in Iraq: Federal Plaza, Chicago, 2nd October 2002

"I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the great depression.

"That’s what I am opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."

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