Despite McCain’s comments, Obama does support terrorist labeling

In response to Sen. John McCain’s address to The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Obama campaign held a conference call where Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Denis McDonough says that Sen. Barack Obama was a co-sponsor of the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, which included a provision designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, and that his support for the bill continues today. He says that Obama did not support amendments of the bill that would have added a mission of countering Iranian influence inside of Iraq. He says that this would have given President Bush, and presumably McCain, additional rationale to keep the troops in Iraq. (0:54)

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