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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Supporters, You Have GOT To Check Out This Thread [View all]neverforget
(9,437 posts)70. So Hillary has no responsibility for her vote?
And Senator Wyden also said this:
"Yet, had the administration met this threshold test, in my view, it has still not met the rest of what I consider to be prudent criteria. While the President has stated his desire to seek alternative means to accomplish his goals before beginning a military strike, to grant the President the authority to conduct a first-strike war before first witnessing the exhaustion of those efforts is to abdicate the obligations of this body in its most sacred role. The Founding Fathers surely envisaged a more challenging inquiry when granting the Congress the responsibility of authorizing armed conflict."
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I think you would have been better quoting Kennedy if your point was "Clinton cant change."
McCamy Taylor
May 2015
#3
Honestly I do not because the false equivalence is so vast and the gulf in remorse so unbridgeable.
Bonobo
May 2015
#20
If we can't forgive and believe Byrd changed from the KKK and give him the benefit of
roguevalley
May 2015
#23
Awesome post woo me with science. Thanks for collecting all this stuff in one place.
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#80
Bernie on the job defending the makers of Bushmaster XM15-E2S and Glock and you forgive this?????
workinclasszero
May 2015
#66
When she shows some genuine soul-searching growth from her part in that slaughter...
Bonobo
May 2015
#10
Yes, the propaganda has reached a point of trying to NORMALIZE monied corruption of the system.
woo me with science
May 2015
#33
Yes, but Bernie doesn't "calculate" by pulling a 180 everytime the "political wind" starts to blow in the other direction. That's the difference with Bernie...WYSIWYG
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2015
#59
And reducing it to just the Iraq vote. That was bad enough to be sure, all by itself. But it all the
sabrina 1
May 2015
#86
if you can't forgive on and allow growth, you can't forgive the other. simple as that.
roguevalley
May 2015
#24
Octopi can also change their spots to blend in with their surroundings, unlike leopards.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2015
#12
WTH are you talking about? Do you think for one second a GOP Congress was going to hold Bush
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#61
So they're blameless for their vote? Powerless to enforce their own laws or votes?
neverforget
May 2015
#63
She has addressed the vote, now are you willing to address the bill passed and understand it was
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#65
Well no shit it's Bush's fault. Do you see me blaming Hillary for Bush's decision? No. She voted
neverforget
May 2015
#67
I thought we had already discussed this but if we dod not her statement was
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#72
Well she is the one running for President now so she is going to get called out on it. It's
neverforget
May 2015
#73
I thought I had heard Bernie was running for president and his record will also be examined
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#74
And that's why you don't think about much: we're talking about Hillary. Not Bernie.
neverforget
May 2015
#75
I did not realize GD was restricted to talking about only Hillary. But thanks for
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#77
You can change the subject all you want if you don't want to talk about Hillary. I understand
neverforget
May 2015
#79
As I saw in another thread today, it waa only a vote and it doesn't make any difference.
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#83
Wow! Really???? That's a pretty cavalier attitude to the men and women who were killed in
neverforget
May 2015
#87
That's the correct history, not the revisionist one where they get to blame her and others
stevenleser
May 2015
#90
The UN did it so it's okay! How many UN troops went to Iraq under the UN flag?
neverforget
May 2015
#96
Just the opposite. It is you who want to condemn one group but not the other and
stevenleser
May 2015
#97
Give me an f'ing break. Admit to what? That Clinton voted for IWR and was wrong
neverforget
May 2015
#98
Politics is my day job. You might want to look into actually researching the facts
stevenleser
May 2015
#101
Fact is it worked for the intended result. The UN weapons inspection teams were let in
stevenleser
May 2015
#103
No, that was not the intent and that's obvious from the wording and its also
stevenleser
May 2015
#105
Bush is responsible for the war. But I get can't over the fact that those who voted for the IWR
neverforget
May 2015
#106
Let 'em vote for Rand. He's only for bombing Israel's neighbors and going back into Iraq. Our hero!
freshwest
May 2015
#19
DUers conveniently forget they voted for a president who has perpertuated war for the last 6 yrs nt
msongs
May 2015
#26
How about her listening to Teddy Kennedy or Pat Leahy? Gonna try to slam either of them?
cali
May 2015
#45
it's not just that one vote. it's a decades long tendency toward being an armchair warhawk
magical thyme
May 2015
#54