ISIS is because senators, including Hillary supported the invasion

[morningfog]

of Iraq and the slaughter of a million Iraqis. Iraq, who had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks,had not attacked us and were not about to attack us.

The Iraq war, championed and pushed by Hillary gave rise to ISIS, and it was predictable and foreseeable.

We are still suffering the aftermath of the vote. It is why her then poor judgment (or worse) still matters.

I do not trust anyone to respond appropriately today who was so very very wrong then.

[Metric System]

1. Over-simplification.

[morningfog]

2. Her vote? I guess you could say that.

But that would be generous.

[ThePhilosopher04]

37. Not really.

[msongs]

3. good thing bernie votes to fund and continue the process :-) nt

[rhett o rick]

5. Sen Sanders votes are to support the troops not the war. nm

[bigtree]

10. how does Congress end wars?

...under the War Powers Act, Congress accepts or rejects deployments like Bush's by approving or withholding funding. They can pass all the resolutions they want, but if they don't fund the deployments they fizzle out and end. That's the ONLY significant lever Congress has to control or restrain a president's military activity.

[rhett o rick]

16. Are you suggesting that Sanders not vote to support our troops in the field? nm

[bigtree]

21. I think that's a specious argument used to coerce legislators into supporting immoral deployments

...wars end when Congress stops funding them. That's what the anti-occupation initiatives in 2007 were all about.

Best way to support the troops? Bring them home.

[rhett o rick]

33. I agree. nm

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. You just don't understand the gift of freedom

See it's complicated freedom is a gift you give to people by blowing up their hospitals and sewage systems and schools for no apparent reason whatsoever and you take their oil and that's freedom.

[rhett o rick]

8. They've been given the gift of Depleated Uranium, unfound land mines and cluster bombs.

The gifts that keep on giving.

[Cheese Sandwich]

13. Uranium you say? Do yourself a favor and never google images for birth defects in fallujah

[Enthusiast]

34. Collateral damage.

[polly7]

19. OMG Did she really say that??

That's actually quite disgusting, knowing how many suffered so terribly, and do so to this day. I saw photos of little children scooping up water in their little pails with a bloated corpse floating by. The Abu Ghraib torture, the horrible bombs left behind blowing of their limbs, the chemicals causing horrific birth abnormalities and deaths, a ruined infrastructure (or what sanctions hadn't already destroyed). Women who had previously been doctors, lawyers, teachers - kidnapped in the streets - raped and murdered. Her comment reminds me of "we think it was worth" it by Albright when questioned about the deaths of half a million children in the brutal sanctions. Or maybe, "Why should I bother my beautiful mind". I will never in my lifetime understand anyone who even thinks this way.

[Cheese Sandwich]

22. Think of it as a business opportunity

“It's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity," she said in a 2011 speech.

The quote was included in an email released by the State Department on Wednesday that specifically mentioned JPMorgan and Exxon Mobil. JPMorgan was selected by the U.S. government to run a key import-export bank in Iraq and in 2013 announced plans to expand its operations in the country. Exxon Mobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oil fields. JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches, and Exxon Mobil has donated over $1 million to the family’s foundation.

http://www.ibtimes.com/campaign-2016-hillary-clinton-pitched-iraq-business-opportunity-us-corporations-2121999

Hillary 2008: "We have to make clear to the Iraqis that they have been given the greatest gift that a human being can give another human being – the gift of freedom."

Hillary 2011: “It's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity"

So you see it's quite nuts.

[polly7]

23. It's just *'ing gross. Sorry to be so blunt. nt.

[Cheese Sandwich]

24. It's the worst.

[AzDar]

30. She came. She voted. They died.

...to paraphrase HRC...

[EndElectoral]

6. Without question that vote is a blemish. Would there be an ISIS w/o the Iraq War?

[KittyWampus]

7. Hillary did not support invading Iraq. I can't stand her, but that's totally dishonest.

[rhett o rick]

9. If she didn't support invading Iraq then she should have told Bush to go to hell instead

of giving a speech to convince others. She had a choice and she chose to side with the Republicon and turn her back on Democrats.

[Scootaloo]

11. No, it's certainly not

She voted FOR a measure to give the executive branch - under the Bush administration - sweeping power to declare war. She voted AGAINST the Levin amendment to it, which would have required diplomacy and a congressional vote to go to war. Then she stood in front of the Senate and parroted, verbatim, the Bush administration propaganda for war.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted war with iraq.

[Feeling the Bern]

29. Look at her rhetoric and how she voted for the war.

[mike_c]

36. she voted for it....

No amount of damage control or revisionist history can ever change the way she used her one opportunity to oppose a war of aggression and crimes against humanity.

[Fred Sanders]

12. The Blame Clinton syndrome is much like the Blame Obama syndrome. Logical failures.

[ronnykmarshall]

14. AND!!

Hillary doesn't fly COACH!!!!

[Fred Sanders]

18. Her Secret Service detail probably would object, don't you think?

Another day, another transparently thin RE meme trotted out for display and denial on DU!

[bigwillq]

15. Yup.

K and R

[Thinkingabout]

17. Sanders has back military action more times than Clinton and he voted against the ISIS Resolution.

He needs to take responsibility of his votes, Clinton has on her vote.

[morningfog]

25. Which of his votes for military action lead to IS?

He was right to vote against the most recent IS vote.

[Thinkingabout]

26. I don't know, you'll have to answer that maybe the Afhhanistan.

[philly_bob]

20. And the government decided on "regime change" in Syria. /nt

[zentrum]

27. Yup.

[cantbeserious]

28. Thank You For Sharing These Truths

eom

[mountain grammy]

31. At the end of the day, her vote and support for an incompetent

and reckless administration is very troubling, especially given the consequences.

[McCamy Taylor]

32. ISIS is because...

...of so many factors that I can not begin to list them all. This OP oversimplifies the issue.

[polly7]

35. K&R. nt.