2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Party loyalty is a means of control. I vote for those who will represent me, period. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)is/was Jewish. He is realistic. Sometimes war is necessary.
The problem with Clinton's vote the Iraq War Resolution is that the Iraq war was illegal in that we invaded Iraq without provocation.
Read the April 2004 article in Vanity Fair on the Iraq War. It was an illegal war.
And as BErnie pointed out when he explained why he was voting against it, we had no plan with regard to governing Iraq after our invasion. Nor did we have a plan to deal with an insurrection.
Bernie was utterly right about the Iraq War.
I disapprove of Hillary's vote for the Iraq War because it showed such poor judgment on her part. She did not ask the intelligent questions that Bernie asked before voting even though the women of Code Pink warned her that she would be making a mistake to vote for that war. (There is a video of Code Pink discussing this with Hillary before her vote possibly on YouTube if you are interested.) Hillary had just left the White House. She should have known to ask the questions that Bernie asked.
Hillary does not have good judgment, and I do not trust her. She does not make decisions based on solid values, careful collection of information and solid reasoning. She makes them based on polls and to serve her opportunistic purposes including her ambition.
She is the picture of the congenial corruption that reigns in D.C.