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In reply to the discussion: When you give a 19 minute floor speech about going to war, it can not be called a mistake. [View all]rateyes
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When you give a 19 minute floor speech about going to war, it can not be called a mistake. [View all]
madfloridian
Jul 2015
OP
hard in the sense that like Eric Holder she didn't want to take an action that would
roguevalley
Jul 2015
#18
Hard my ass. She had to make a hard decision? She had it easy comparied to the hundreds of
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#154
Millions of us knew it was wrong. Hillary was either complicit or really, really gullible.
Scuba
Jul 2015
#55
Exactly. She's either too nefarious to be president or too stupid to be president
shaayecanaan
Jul 2015
#77
spot on! which is why I will NEVER vote for Hilary-I will write in Bernie! if need be eom
fed-up
Jul 2015
#289
And this is probably the EASIEST decision I've ever had to make...I'm voting for Bernie!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jul 2015
#302
"he did not use the power wisely nor as a last resort. That, however, is on him!"
bvar22
Jul 2015
#23
I don't believe this is accurate. Saddam Hussein WAS allowing inspections,
colorado_ufo
Jul 2015
#40
I wonder what would have happened if the Supreme Court hadn't been in session during
Stardust
Jul 2015
#157
But Saddam did allow inspections, jberry, from Nov. 27, 2002 to March 18, 2003.
Mnemosyne
Jul 2015
#63
Yup, when she listen to Bush over Blix, we learned everything we needed to know about her.
Exultant Democracy
Jul 2015
#231
Everyone with two functioning brain cells knew that the Bush admin was gearing up for war.
delrem
Jul 2015
#103
Anyone who didn't know Bushco would abuse that authority was uninformed and/or stupid
Martin Eden
Jul 2015
#147
Hans Blix, inspected Iraq a number of times before Clinton voted for war, he said don't go to war
Exultant Democracy
Jul 2015
#223
yes we did. he kept al qaida out of iraq and millions of people are dead because of what you outline
roguevalley
Jul 2015
#20
I saw the speeches. I wasn't foolish enough to think we were safe *before* the attacks,
winter is coming
Jul 2015
#21
+1: She was/is a smart person with incredible connections. Of course she knew that this was a lie.
erronis
Jul 2015
#47
You know most Democrats in Congress voted against the Iraq War Resolution, right?
PoliticAverse
Jul 2015
#29
So? The people who voted for it are still responsible for it passing - all of them. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2015
#69
Democrats Share the Blame for Tragedy of Iraq War--Ignored the Evidence Against Invasion
KoKo
Jul 2015
#323
Yes. I was an adult in 2001, and I answer in the affirmative for most of your questions.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2015
#124
There is so much wrong with what you are saying that it's unbelievable you're saying it.
marym625
Jul 2015
#190
Look at the old archived DU, the answer is we knew all of this in real time.
Exultant Democracy
Jul 2015
#225
"wait until 2015 when the kids whose parents we blast away in our ground war grow up"
madfloridian
Jul 2015
#243
"authorization to use military force" with a large number of criteria to be met before...
George II
Jul 2015
#257
"use these powers wisely"....so Bush can invade a country that had nothing
neverforget
Jul 2015
#109
Millions of us knew better. We knew better then. We felt it was a terrible decision at the time.
Enthusiast
Jul 2015
#28
Many of us took to the streets numerous times between October 2002 and March 2003
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#48
'hindsight'? Most Democrats in Congress had the foresight to vote against the resolution. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2015
#70
My whole family marched against the war-we paid attention, we knew, no hindsight needed.eom
fed-up
Jul 2015
#290
I'm sure the men and women in the military that had their legs and arms blown off
davidpdx
Jul 2015
#304
Yes. How could we possibly know that the gun we gave Dubya in Act I would be fired in Act III??
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#41
Hillary was hoodwinked by Dubya's cunning wiles, faced with a smooth talker like that who wouldn't?
Fumesucker
Jul 2015
#104
Perhaps she had a beer with him? I was told he was that kind of guy. n/t
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#111
NOT elected twice! black box voting-Supreme Court decision-please do NOT state he was "elected" eom
fed-up
Jul 2015
#291
Yeah, but she was handing that power to Dubya who used it to avenge his daddy
corkhead
Jul 2015
#218
The person that gives their car keys to the town drunk and thinks they are blamelesss
Exultant Democracy
Jul 2015
#227
Jeez! Can't we just say "Whoops! Sorry about the dead people!" and move on?? n/t
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#51
"Clinton replied that she had been briefed, though she did not say by whom." nt
antigop
Jul 2015
#197
Bernie gets to stand by his decision, Hillary has to stand in it, populace living .
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2015
#60
partisan politics maximizes "passion" while minimizing promises or anything else real
MisterP
Jul 2015
#252
Of course it can. The length of the speech is completely irrelevant. She formulated her opinion
pnwmom
Jul 2015
#82
If you truly believe she simply made a mistake (I don't), she has appalling judgment n/t
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2015
#90
Intelligent people can be deceived. Ted Kennedy said he understood why they voted that way,
pnwmom
Jul 2015
#119
No, he was popular because people thought him trustworthy, and he was an Independent
pnwmom
Jul 2015
#128
You misremember. Powell was a lackey and a useful tool, some remember the infamous U.N. speech.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#142
where has Bernie asked that DUers stop discussing issues we consider important?
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#108
don't know where you posted the links, but my google results didn't yield much
magical thyme
Jul 2015
#115
Wait! I missed that. When did Bernie tell us we couldn't discuss the Iraq war and the votes
Autumn
Jul 2015
#116
Purposely conflating and confusing an authorization for Presidential war powers as consent to a war is also Red State stuff.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#97
Us old guys should let our fellow Democrats sort it out in the primaries.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#99
Oh, you're using the old Condoleeza Rice canard, "No one could have foreseen…"
tularetom
Jul 2015
#229
Not knowing history, combined with ulterior motives, twists everything. Twisted DU lately.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#232
Dude, I knew on 9/12 that Bush was going to start a war somewhere as a result of 9/11
tularetom
Jul 2015
#234
Seeing so much into the future with 100% accuracy - it is too bad you were not elected President!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#235
Hillary was hoodwinked by Dubya's cunning wiles, faced with a smooth talker like that who wouldn't?
Fumesucker
Jul 2015
#269
Your crystal ball circa 2002 has amazing clarity...looks like lots of folks on the thread made a fortune in the stock market!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#309
Usually it's Republicans who view their prior words as "negative attacks."
Jester Messiah
Jul 2015
#184
Not only did they not read it but they didn't pay any attention to people who knew better...
blackspade
Jul 2015
#237
When the best argument is "but my candidate was too stupid to know what W was about!"
delrem
Jul 2015
#148
Being a paranoid person that I was in 2010, here is how I viewed the IWR vote.
Old and In the Way
Jul 2015
#153
I remember that speech well, I believe it was after Sen Byrd's incredible historic speech.
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#151
I just found a treasure by an old friend DU Sept 19, 2001. Brought tears. No longer with us.
madfloridian
Jul 2015
#152
What arms? Please don't tell me you believed that cock and bull story about WMDs, Sec
Stardust
Jul 2015
#159
And ran a godawful fall campaign that stood for nothing, and lost by three million votes.
Ken Burch
Jul 2015
#172
The OPer is not running for the highest and most important single job in government.
malthaussen
Jul 2015
#217
"hundreds of billions dollars" - it's at least a trillion dollars in total costs.
PoliticAverse
Jul 2015
#281
try about 7 trillion-including care for returning vets-won't talk about neglected infatsructure eom
fed-up
Jul 2015
#300
If I ever expressed my feelings about Hillary here I would be banned in minutes
olddots
Jul 2015
#233
running the candidate that perfectly represents the fact that the party's becoming a gaping vacuum
MisterP
Jul 2015
#265
You have to admit that The Bush/Cheney/CIA/Pentagon Intelligence apparatus was manipulating.
YOHABLO
Jul 2015
#278
It wasn't a mistake. However either way, a mistake of what she actually believed, that she could
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#316