FORMER Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee entered the race on Wednesday, casting himself as an anti-war candidate who opposed the invasion of Iraq when Clinton supported it.
"We must deliberately and carefully extricate ourselves from expensive wars," Chafee told students at George Mason University in northern Virginia. "We need to be very smart in these voluble times overseas." With his announcement, Chafee became the longshot among Clinton rivals, who have a fair way to go to avoid becoming historical footnotes in the 2016 campaign. Clinton has set a goal of raising $US100 million ($A128.5 million) for her primary bid. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who entered the race last week, has already raised at least $US4 million ($A5.1 million). And allies of former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley have established a super political action committee to support his efforts. All three have begun building robust campaign operations with staff across the country, a step Chafee has yet to take. Chafee is a former Republican turned independent, who joined the Democratic Party two years ago. The policy prescriptions in his speech include probable non-starters such as moving the US to the metric system. He also called for an end to capital punishment, said National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden should be let back into the US without punishment, proposed repairing relations with Venezuela and said he favoured an "open-minded approach" to drug trafficking. His priority would be to end all wars. "Let's wage peace in this new American century," he said.
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