After pointing out the problem her war views have been causing Hillary lately and noting that Kerry and Edwards are now on record regretting their votes, Adam Nagourney quotes two Dem executives who will probably run in 2008: Tom Vilsack of Iowa and Mark Warner of Virginia. (The article, about the difficulty members of Congress have because of the voting record, also looks at Repubs McCain and Mitt Romney):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/washington/02senators.html?pagewanted=printGov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa, a Democrat, declined to say in an interview how he would have voted on the war.
"I'm not going to get into that; this isn't about what happened in the past," Mr. Vilsack said. "If we're looking at the elections of 2006 and 2008, I think it's important to look to the future and learn from whatever mistakes we made in the past."
Mark Warner, a former Virginia governor and another likely Democratic presidential contender, said he did not support setting a deadline for troop withdrawal.
"We have been put in this extraordinarily difficult situation," Mr. Warner said. "My sense is going out without a plan is just as bad as going in without a plan. So I have not been one of those people who say that come heck or high water, we are going to leave by a fixed date."
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"I don't think any U.S. senator, regardless of party, if they had known there weren't W.M.D., that we were going to get selected leaks, I don't think anybody would have voted for it," he said. "Second-guessing people who made a valiant attempt at judgment is not where I am at."
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