14th District hopefuls exchange barbs

Daily Herald — At their first public forum together, the five front-runners for the 14th Congressional District exchanged barbs Friday on everything from the Iraq war to government transparency.

In his opening statement at a St. Charles event sponsored by local chambers of commerce, Democrat Bill Foster called out Republican Jim Oberweis for his Iraq war stance.

"Jim, one of the first things that you said when you announced your candidacy this August was that the right approach was to keep our troops in Iraq for the next 10 years," said Foster, who is calling for a withdrawal of U.S. military troops. "And you don't even discuss any plan to bring our troops home."
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Posted on January 09, 2008