Biden's Iraq War support a ripe target for Democratic rivals

In the 2008 Democratic primary season, Hillary Clinton got hit repeatedly for her vote in favor of the 2002 Iraq War resolution. Her chief opponent, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, had been a vocal opponent of military action in Iraq, which proved an important element in his upset win.

A dozen years later, another prominent senator from that era who backed the Iraq War resolution, Joe Biden, is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. With the passage of time, the war has been denounced by much of the general public as a mistake. Yet, it’s still an open question whether Biden, who went on to serve eight years as Obama’s vice president, will be hurt by that vote nearly 17 years ago.