It's the war stupid... (Score 1)

Clinton on voting for the Iraq war resolution:

"Some people now think that this was a very clear, open-and-shut case. We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors. We had evidence that they had a lot of bad stuff for a very long time which we discovered after the first Gulf War. Knowing that he was a megalomaniac, knowing he would not want to compete for attention with Osama bin Laden, there were legitimate concerns about what he might do. So, I think I made a reasoned judgment. Unfortunately, the person who actually got to execute the policy did not."

Hillary either has the experience in her "term" in the white house, or she is ignorant.

There was no reason to invade Iraq. If Hillary has or had the experience, she knew damn well that Iraq wasn't a threat. There was no link to Al-Qaeda. The UN weapon inspections had worked and ascertained a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. We went in there, and guess what? No WMDS... surprise, surprise...

What did she expect was going to happen when giving an administration, who was outright lying about intelligence, authorization to go to war and to preemptively invade? Could she not see the megalomaniac(s) that were in the executive office? After all the inspections and dealings with Iraq during the Clinton administration she could not see though the Bush administration's bullshit? Come on.

Either she made the vote for her own political gain, or she believed in the actual rational behind the invasion, that perhaps US economic hegemony was more important than the lives of our US service men and women and the lives of countless Iraqi civilians.

I for one, will not support Clinton.

Here's a good link on this topic:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/02/6802/