Obama Vehemently Disagrees

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he ``vehemently'' rejects comments made by the longtime spiritual adviser and pastor of his Chicago church, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

``I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,'' Illinois Senator Obama said in a statement today. Among the more provocative remarks was his suggestion that the U.S. brought the Sept. 11 attacks on itself. . . . . ``The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards,'' Wright, who serves on Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee, preached following the 2001 terrorist attacks. ``America's chickens are coming home to roost.'' In another sermon Wright suggested the U.S. may have had a role in spreading the AIDS virus. . . . . ``The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,'' Wright said.