Hillary Clinton: "The war was worth it just to remove Saddam Hussein..."

[sabra]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/regional/story/370813p-315434c.html

Hil used to be strictly for the war

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton left one thing out this week when she tried to explain her views on Iraq - namely that she used to agree almost completely with President Bush, even after the war took a nosedive.

On Tuesday, Clinton wrote in a 1,600-word letter to supporters that her 2002 vote for war in Iraq was based on "evidence presented by the administration."

"The 'evidence' of weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda turned out to be false," Clinton wrote.

But just months after the bombs started falling, Clinton (D-N.Y.) called a Daily News reporter to insist she had no second thoughts about her vote for war.

The war was worth it just to remove Saddam Hussein from power, she said.

[400Years]

1. then why didn't we leave when they caught him?

[LeftNYC]

2. Interesting that the last sentence

does not have quotes around it. Not saying Hilary doesnt believe that, but it seems she may have expounded on it and the quote was chopped.

[Inland]

10. Noticed that too. nt

[sabra]

16. that is a good point.

peace.

[papau]

28. I also saw that -the GOP must really fear her to be mis-quoting this early

in the race.

[ChickMagic]

3. How does that explain

that many Iraqis want him back to restore order?

[Burning Water]

17. The Sunnis

were doing pretty good under Saddam. It was the Kurds and the Shiites who were under a Nazi-like oppression.

We don't have to support Saddam, or the Baathists, to be against George Bush. This is sort of a "plague on both your houses" type of situation.

[ChickMagic]

29. Oh, I'm certainly not pro Sadaam

I just find it interesting that Iraqis, at least some of them, want him back.

[mod mom]

4. I back what Tim Robbins had to say about Hilliary!

[LSparkle]

21. Yeah -- what HE said !!!

[Pastiche423]

30. And he looked so cute when he said...

"Hillary can kiss my butt!"

Pucker up, Ms Clinton.

[Pastiche423]

31. Hiccup

Dupe

[Hobarticus]

5. Oh, Hil, just when I think people are picking on you unfairly...

You go off and run your piehole.

[sniffa]

6. can we start caLLing her hiLLieberman?

[sabra]

8. two pees in a pod

[Loonman]

7. Make up your mind, Hillary

For once, instead of glad-handing for future votes.

[Imagevision]

26. Hil's statement makes one believe the war will be ongoing in 2009

for her to make the changes to end the Bush debacle if she somehow is elected to be the next president?!! Boxer should run against Hillary!!

[Burried News]

9. Think of all the countries Hillary can put right once she's President.

[heidler1]

11. Unless Hillary is willing to follow Bill's orders i'm worried.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. I guess she just can't get away from her roots

as a Goldwater Girl.

[northernsoul]

13. no way in hell will I support this woman to be our candidate

in 2008.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. How sweet of her to "pick up the white man's burden".

She and her VichyDem colleagues are contemptable accomplices in the slaughter.

[kurth]

15. "How many American casualties is Saddam worth?"

"How many American casualties is Saddam worth? The answer is not very damned many."
- Dick Cheney, Seattle, August 1992

[HereSince1628]

18. This is one of those basic problems with populist centrism...

If you engage in it you are bound to get caught changing your mind, which in the political ads of your adversaries equals flip-flopping.

In this respect it's somewhat better to be principled. You get out of step with the population almost as often, but you look consistent.

[helderheid]

19. oh no she DIDN'T!!

UUuuuuuuuuuuugh

[salinen]

20. Sure it is

There are about 125 miles worth of dead humans if you laid them end to end you senseless headcheese.

[KG]

22. hillary clinton is a joke. one that i'm really tired of hearing and isn't

funny anymore.

[understandinglife]

23. FOCUS: Just Planning War of Aggression IS A War Crime

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5481072

'nuf said.


Peace.

[kcwayne]

24. It wasn't so "worth it" that she convinced Chelsea to go serve, was it?

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. Good grief. This is what happens when you crawl in bed with repukes.

She sold her SOUL TO THE DEVIL and now she can't think of a way to get out of it. NO REASON is a good enough reason for a preemptive, illegal attack on another country, Hil. She's so screwed. I know she won't be gettin' my vote.

[yorgatron]

27. Hey Hillary!

[MN ChimpH8R]

32. Keep digging, Hill

you will get to China soon enough.

[Rex]

33. I've been defending her, but this is just BULLSHIT!

Sorry, I cannot in good faith defend Hillary anymore. Whatever drug she's on has turned her into a flamming chickenhawk. So why didn't daddy Bush remove Saddam if he was such a threat? Why?

Renounce your decision and get on with life, Hill. Otherwise you risk losing your seat when it comes up. Oh yeah, lay the fuck off video games and the internet in general. You look like a fucking loon when you endorse wacky stuff.

[understandinglife]

34. "Democrats should, at all costs, avoid following Hillary Clinton and her

... have-it-both-ways rhetoric. "I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment without limits or end," she wrote in an email to supporters this week. "Nor do I believe that we can or should pull out of Iraq immediately." Talk about covering all your bases -- and standing for nothing.

From Dems' Template for Success: Follow John Murtha... and George Washington by Arianna Huffington

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/dems-template-for-succes_b_11597.html

DU link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5504800&mesg_id=5504800

'nuf said ...


Peace.

[blm]

35. Except Saddam was negotiating an exit before the bombing and Bush KNEW IT.

Bush was NOT going to be denied his military invasion.