Hillary Clinton Says She Wouldn't Have Voted For Iraq War

[kpete]

Hillary Clinton Says She Wouldn't Have Voted For Iraq War
December 18, 2006 4:02 PM

ABC News' David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she "wouldn't have voted that way" if she knew everything she knows now.

Clinton has often been asked if she regrets her vote authorizing military action and she usually answers that question with an artful dodge, saying that she accepts responsibility for the vote and suggesting that if the Senate had all the information it has today (no WMD, troubled post-war military planning, etc. . .), there would never have been a vote on the Senate floor.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/12/hillary_clinton.html

[walldude]

1. Just figuring this all out is she?

Right on time :eyes: And with her usual political flair, the "artful dodge".

[Bombtrack]

2. Somebody has to just keep hammering into the people that HC has no chance of getting nominated

She's just a mediocre politician who happened to be Married to a famously great one.

[David Dunham]

3. Wrong! She leads McCain 50--43 in Newsweek's poll; Obama trails McCain

[Bombtrack]

8. what part of "of getting nominated" don't you understand?

[William769]

9. She has a better chance than Wesley Clark. Thats for sure. NT.

[Bombtrack]

10. That explains why he has 87 times more messages in his candidate forum

so no, it's not "for sure".

[William769]

14. If thats how you want to guage this go ahead.

I forgot that DU decides elections. :eyes:

[Bombtrack]

15. It isn't the best way to guage activist enthusiasm but it also isn't the worst ever

[rodeodance]

4. hey, we get Bill with Hil.

[rsmith6621]

5. Hillary Is Trying To Fit In With Everyone Else...

......Hillary save your time and others $$$$ don't run until you are serious about your regrets...please don't insult the troops by now conveniently waffling just to get elected...

[bluerum]

6. My guess is that just about every senator would say something similar.

Why are you ragging on her? She is telling the truth. She was lied to. And if she knew the truth she would not have voted that way.

[rsmith6621]

7. Its taken her....

4 years and a chance at the white house to come out and say something....thats why....she has gone politically correct on us...she wont get my vote....

[cali]

12. Please.

Don't give me that line about how she was lied to. There was a ton of information out there casting doubt on the admin bullshit. And quite a few of her colleagues were politely but strongly saying that.

[bluerum]

17. She was lied to. Period. If there was a ton of information out there,

that's one thing. But it does not change the fact that the congress, senate, and you and I were lied to. So please, don't try to make it seem like the lies don't matter.

[cali]

18. Sorry, that she couldn't

or wouldn't give credence to the information extant at the time that debunked the admin's lies, does not speak well of Hillary Clinton's judgement.

[bluerum]

19. Point taken. But a lie'n, thieve'n administration is nothing to brag about either. nt

[Doc_Technical]

11. Too late to say you're sorry.

By the way, where is that health care reform we were promised

thirteen years ago?

[Az]

13. The system is broken

Until we have a media that provides us with a news service that actually serves We The People we will get politicians that have to behave like politicians. Standing up and speaking to power doesn't work very well when the power controls the means by which the people hear what people are saying.

Due to our lack of ability to be informed of actual issues politicians that attempt to actually do good works are constrained in behaving and voting on certain issues as the media tailors it. To vote otherwise would lose what hold they do have at the time.

Without a means of the people being properly informed democracy cannot work. You may as well throw darts at a board to elect people when you vote in ignorance. And the corporations get to hold the board as well.

[BuyingThyme]

16. That does it. I'm convinced.