This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, February 22nd, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The foreign policy of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump rests somewhat on the idea that they recognize the folly of the Iraq war.

Chris Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute,

discusses the candidate's record on important foreign policy questions.

Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders highlight the fact that they think the Iraq war was a bad idea.

Bernie Sanders has taken Hillary Clinton to task repeatedly on this in debates and elsewhere

talking about judgment matters, even if experience matters, judgment matters.

They had all these briefings, the same briefings that Hillary Clinton received,

Bernie Sanders received, and he voted no on the Iraq

war and she voted yes.

Donald Trump separates himself from many in the Republican field by saying the Iraq war was stupid, to use his term.

So what's wrong with that?

Well, don't they seem they sound like Chris Preble?

In this one area they do to a point but I think it's I think it is

important to differentiate. First of all in the case of Bernie Sanders he was

serving in the house at the time of the Iraq War resolution and it's true he he like many Democrats

voted against the war but many Democrats voted for the authorization to use

force against Iraq so I think he has a line of argument that is similar, although not the same as Barack Obama,

because Barack Obama wasn't actually in Congress.

He didn't have to vote yes or no.

He made a speech about the war beforehand. I think it can be overplayed. I mean I

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