Hilary Clinton Pulls a Cheney
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Hilary Clinton has gone through so many contortions trying to explain away her vote to authorize Bush’s Iraqi adventure and enunciate her current positions on the war I’m surprised she’s not in permanent traction. I realize that Clinton will pander to just about any constituency to fulfill her desire to be president, (to wit her co-sponsorship of a prohibition of flag burning after the Supreme Court had already invalidated such legislation); but, still, I am surprised that she is now apparently pandering to Dick Cheney.
I thought Cheney was the only dead ender still connecting Iraq with the 9-11 attacks, but I was wrong. Dead ender Clinton recently spewed the same line of absolute crap in an interview with the Associated Press, while at the same time trying to guilt trip those of us who aren’t from New York, or at least carpetbaggers like she is.
“There are no do-overs in life,” Clinton said. She says Congress received bad information going into the vote and that she would have voted differently given what she knows now.
“As a senator from New York, I lived through 9/11 and I am still dealing with the aftereffects,” Clinton said. “I may have a slightly different take on this from some of the other people who will be coming through here.
“Clinton said her view is that the nation is engaged in a deadly fight against terrorism, a battle that she contends Bush has botched.
“I do think we are engaged in a war against heartless, ruthless enemies,” she said. “If they could come after us again tomorrow they would do so.”
As for basing her vote to enter a pointless, criminal war on “bad information” she “received”, Senator Bob Graham was able to see through the Bush administration’s lies, as was Al Gore, Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, and millions of others. Clinton’s vote to go to war was based purely on political calculation, as is every political move she makes.
While I’m at it, I harbor just about the same sentiments about John Edwards, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and every other congressperson who voted for war and is now telling us they were wrong. They were indeed wrong.
There is no excuse for willful ignorance and none of the presidential aspirants who voted for war should ever be forgiven.
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