Despite having supported the Iraq War in 2002, John Kasich told CNN that he never would have taken the U.S into the war. He was being interviewed on Sunday's "State of the Union" when he made his statements, according to CNN. "I would never have committed ourselves to Iraq," Kasich said. Kasich is the former governor of Ohio.
In 2002, he was a former Congressman. "We should go to war with Iraq," he said then, at an event at The Ohio State University. Around 100 students attended the speech, which was reported in the school's student newspaper.
Currently, Kasich is campaigning in the Republican primary that will determine the next candidate for President of the United States.
Kasich made similar comments in a newspaper interview in May, according to The Columbus Dispatch. "But if the question is, if there were not weapons of mass destruction should we have gone, the answer would've been no," he said in that interview.
Kasich did not have this stance on Iraq when he was interviewed in March of this year - just two months prior. Kasich responded differently when asked about the Iraq War then. "I don't want to go back and redo that. I mean, it was there, and I don't want to disparage anybody who served our country. I'm just going to reserve my comment on that," he said, according to Cleveland.com.
When it comes to ISIS, however, the former governor made it clear that he does support a conflict with this group. He said he would deploy American troops, but only with international support. "I don't want to go in alone," he said, according to CBS DFW.
