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Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq
On this sad fifth anniversary, I can't help wishing she'd been bolder in admitting her mistake in voting to authorize Bush's war.
Joan Walsh [2008-03-19]

  • Does HRC also get a mulligan for her vote authorizing the Iranian guard as a "Terrorist Organization"?

    One might think that Senator Clinton would have learned from

    her earlier vote authorizing force in Iraq. But no.

    We all know the rules under the Bush Doctrine: any nation harboring terrorists is subject to pre-emptive attack. Is anyone out there not clear on the meaning?

    So, when the GOP trotted out this justification for military action as Bush/Cheney and their lapdogs in Congress were doing the bigtime sabre-rattling against Iran last Fall, did Senator Clinton understand what her vote meant? I think we have to agree that she did. And she voted in favor.

    Fortunately for us, whistleblowers in our intelligence community leaked the new NIE on Iran the following week. If those good people hadn't acted, who knows how far along we'd be toward invading Iran.

    And so I ask: how many mulligans does Senator Clinton get?

    -- Ricardo Malocchio
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    Wednesday, March 19, 2008 09:47 AM
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