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Bernie Sanders pointed, as he has before, that he voted against the war in Iraq while Hillary Clinton voted for it. | AP Photo Sanders on Clinton's foreign policy: Experience isn't judgment

The experience versus judgment debate on foreign policy is getting sharper.

Sanders granted to Clinton that in her four years as secretary of state, “ya got a bit of experience, I would imagine.” He added, "No question ... that she has enormous experience in foreign affairs... but judgment matters as well.”

Sanders pointed, as he has before, that he voted against the war in Iraq while Clinton voted for it.

He “very carefully,” Sanders said, to what then-President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney said about weapons of mass destruction, “and I didn’t believe them.”

Sanders also attacked the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, a move Clinton championed at State, noting that ISIS has moved into the power vacuum.

“I will look very carefully about unintended consequences,” Sanders promised, to make sure that American soldiers “do not get bogged down in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.”

Clinton responded: “I do not believe a vote in 2002 is a plan to defeat ISIS in 2016.”

She continued, “When people go to vote in primaries or caucuses, they are voting not only for the president. They are voting for the commander in chief, and it’s important to really look hard at what the dangers we face are and who is best prepared to face them.”

Clinton noted that Obama also opposed the war in Iraq, but he nonetheless chose her to be his top diplomat. And he shared her judgment, she noted, about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

