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In reply to the discussion: What did Hillary think after Senator Byrd gave this speech? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)all the Iraqis who died and the mess that Iraq is in now. Saddam was a horrible man, but the war was the biggest foreign policy blunder the US has made since unseating Mossadegh in Iran. Horrible mistake.
Bush II was impatient and did not weigh the risks of the war before committing troops. Hillary did the same thing.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush knew that. Hillary should have. There is no excuse for the deaths of 3000 loyal American servicemen, no excuse for what happened in Iraq. None whatsoever. And Hillary had been in the White House for the eight years preceding 9/11. If she did not know the truth, she of all people should have demanded to know it. She would have been able to find it out.
I question her integrity and her willingness to do what is right when faced with very difficult choices. Sorry to offend the Hillary supporters, but I grew up with people who tried to do the right thing.
Hillary could have turned the tide on the Iraq War thing, but she did not have the courage to ask the necessary questions. She did not have the complete commitment to truth that we need in a president.
I'm sure Bernie has also made mistakes, but somehow I doubt that any were quite like the Iraq War.