Letters to the Editor
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If it weren't for anonymous "whistleblowers" in our intelligence community...
...the very ones who leaked the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran last Fall, how far along would we be toward invading that country?
And here we find ourselves at the nexus of the reason why Clinton should be anathema to Democrats in precisely the way Lieberman is. She is an enabler of the GOP war machine.
Actions, not words... remember?
Let's all recall 2002, when Clinton and the vast majority of Democrats bowed to the Bush administration's war-mongering. Without so much as a whimper, Hillary cast her vote for the resolution "authorizing force in Iraq". And she did so without even bothering to read the National Intelligence Estimate.
We've all seen her attempt to justify it. She claims she thought her vote "authorizing force in Iraq" was really to bring the inspectors back in. Seems quite a stretch to me, but let's give her the benefit of the doubt. She was fooled once, but not again... right?
Wrong. When the GOP trotted out the bill to certify the Iranian guard as a terrorist organization during last Fall's session, did Clinton see through this obvious ploy to authorize force in Iran? We all know our rules of engagement: any nation that harbors terrorists is subject to pre-emptive attack. So, Clinton votes to give Bush his justification for war, and if it weren't for good people in our intelligence community leaking the new NIE the following week, how far along would we be now? We are simply lucky that Clinton's actions enabling the GOP war machine didn't pan out. Simply lucky.
We can't allow this person to be commander-in-chief. She is either stupid, completely unprincipled, or a closeted war-monger in the Bush/McCain mold. Actions, not words... remember? And her actions have been indefensible.