The Iraq War: Hillary Clinton’s Achilles’ Heel?

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==by Joshua Frank / May 22nd, 2007

Senator Clinton is sure trying hard to court the antiwar vote while still sustaining a muscular U.S. foreign policy agenda as she runs for the presidency. On May 16, Hillary Clinton sided with 28 other senators in support for advancing legislation to cut off funding for the war in Iraq after March of 2008.

Despite her modest antiwar gesture, Clinton was still not willing to predict how she would side on similar legislation in the future. “I’m not going to speculate on what I’m going to be voting on in the future,” Clinton told reporters shortly after the vote. “I voted in favor of cloture to have a debate.”

Hours later Clinton changed her mind, and decided that she wanted to do more than start a debate on the matter. “I support the underlying bill,” she said. “That’s what this vote on cloture was all about.”

Even though the race for the White House is still in its infancy, Hillary Clinton has yet to take a coherent position on the Iraq war. The senator from New York has continually blamed President Bush for putting forward faulty information about Iraq’s WMD programs, as well as Saddam’s alleged ties to al Qaeda while he was in power. Clinton, like the rest of us, was lied to, and as a result she naively voted to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq to destroy Saddam’s regime.==

==Hillary Clinton has tried to have it both ways on Iraq for several years. Voting for phased troop redeployment, while also supporting continued funding for the occupation. Her vote last week is surely not an indication of which way she’ll turn in the future.==

Read the rest at http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-iraq-war-hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-achilles%E2%80%99-heel/

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1. Damn that author is going to cost Hillary the jew hating vote!

See the 2nd comment

It does not matter who we elect, both parties are controlled by neo-con/zionists. Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars. Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov’t commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC’s ‘money-men’. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran.. Then we’ll invade Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon (again) then ….
Final link (before Google Books bends to gov’t demands and censors the title):

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2. Marist poll of Democrats...

For 48% her war position made them MORE likely to vote for her...only 9% less likely...

Yeah really hurtin her!