Letters to the Editor
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Why does it matter?
Why Does It Matter That Hillary Voted For The War in 2002?
So did the majority of Democrats in the Senate. Only 21 voted against, and they were all given inaccurate information.
Because in 2002 Obama said he:
1. "...[ was]opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression."
2. "...[knew] that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history."
3. "...[knew] that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences...that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda."
As far as I am concerned he was right on all three points. So he was able to analyze the situation in spite of the propaganda that was being thrown out by the administration. (I was saying the same things myself at the time, even though I do not have any security clearance and get my current affairs information from Internet sources only.)
Hillary, on the other hand, even though she is the wife of a former President, and surely must have had access to all the best informatiith the sheep, but she showed that she was a follower not a leader.
Perhaps, as some people think, she voted against her own inclination, because she thought a vote against the war would be unpopular. Well, I can't see Margaret Thatcher or Angela Merkel being so wimpy, and if this is the correct explanation, then it hardly recommends her as qualified to be the leader of the free world.
That is all.