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• Monday, March 12, 2007 09:15 PM

  Her core belief?

  I think it is great that Clinton refuses to apologize for her Iraq vote because of her core beliefs. We need more candidates for all elective offices that a guided by their core beliefs.

  Let's just be clear what that core belief is, though. Her core belief is that if someone offers some set of evidence about Iraq and WMD and she bases her vote on that evidence, then she is not responsible. It doesn't matter that set of evidence is so transparently flawed that it convinces no one who actually knows anything about Iraq or WMD. It doesn't matter that there was abundant evidence at the time that the evidence was being presented was being fixed around the policy. It doesn't matter that the central argument for the war, Colin Powell's speech to the UN, was such transparent hogwash that anyone who asked any question about Powell's assertions would instantly realize that the claims didn't hold up.

  No, Senator Clinton was not personally responsible for being fooled. Apparently all those years at Yale Law School, in the Rose law firm and in public life taught Senator Clinton to believe everything she heard and that the responsibility for her vote rests not with her, but with those who misinformed her.

  This is her core belief.

  We currently have a President who believes absolutely in his own infallibility and right to behave as a moron and blame others for his failures.

  One of my core beliefs is that we don't need another.

  —yesteray Read yesteray's other letters
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