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6 Democratic Presidential Candidates Trade Barbs, Attack Trump

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Six U.S. Democratic presidential candidates traded barbs
   with each other in a tense debate late Tuesday, attempting to make the
   case to voters in the farm state of Iowa that they alone have the
   political fortitude and skill to take on Republican President Donald
   Trump in the November national election.

   With heightened world tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Sen. Bernie
   Sanders of Vermont, a self-described democratic socialist, quickly
   attacked the foreign policy credentials of the party's national
   front-runner for the presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe
   Biden.
   Sanders derided Biden's 2002 vote authorizing the U.S. invasion of Iraq
   on what proved to be erroneous American intelligence that deposed
   dictator Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction, while
   Sanders opposed the the 2003 invasion.
   He said Biden voted for the "worst foreign policy blunder in the
   history of this country."
   Biden, who for years has said his Iraq vote was a mistake, countered
   that while he had erred, as former U.S. President Barack Obama's second
   in command, he worked to bring home more than 150,000 U.S. troops once
   stationed in Iraq and to end the conflict.

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