Solid web Ad from Obama

[gabeana]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Obama_web_video_revisits_Clinton_2002_speech.html#comments


http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Chafee_raps_Clinton_as_Bush_enabler_03172008.html

"Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill," Chafee writes. "They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment, in my view."

Chafee says top Democrats put their political ambitions first in the fall of 2002


I know Chafee is a republican but he is the only republican senator that voted against Bush's war


on Hufington post Bob Graham really puts into context Hillary's judgement in voting for Bush's war resolution

snipet from the interview

How did you grow convinced that the Iraq War was a bad idea?

"I had, somewhat by accident, found out that the reality that Iraq was a trade-off for Afghanistan. I visited Central Command in February 2002, met with Tommy Franks and he told me that they were reducing their capabilities in Afghanistan in order to ship personnel and equipment to get ready for war in Iraq. The message was that we weren't really able to fight two battles concurrently. I then raised the question, which was the more important to U.S. interests: Iraq or Afghanistan?

I thought clearly it was Afghanistan. We asked for an NIE to support this. We got one and it was very squishy about what Iraq was doing, but the administration continued to heighten the drumbeats for war based on weapons of mass destruction. I just felt we were being manipulated and that the result was going to distract us from where our real enemies were."


Why didn't the other members of Senators do this type of homework?

I don't know you have to ask the people who made the decision who felt it was not necessary to have that piece of information to come to a conclusion. I think a lot of people, I guess, voted yes based on the old tradition that the president tells the truth. You can rely on what the president says and the president was saying we were facing an enormous threat that required our military.

[arewenotdemo]

1. A "rogue" pResident!

Bless you, Sen. Lincoln Chafee.

[JimGinPA]

2. K&R

[DJ13]

3. I know Chafee is a republican

I believe Lincoln Chafee reregistered as Independant after getting screwed over by the GOP in 2006.

Thanks for posting that article!

[gabeana]

4. I didn't know he changed to Independent

thanks