The Truth About Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Views

[moonshaz]

NOTE: I know some people reading this will probably brush off this article as worthless and even maybe laugh at it, but I'm posting it anyway. I think it's appropriate for a wide range of views to be represented here, and the views outlined here are not ones that are often, if ever, expressed in this comm. I am therefore posting this for those (and

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[prehnite]

George W. Bush lied about his intentions.

I was 14 years old when Congress voted on the Iraq war, and even I could see that the administration's arguments and evidence were horseshit. Considering her position and access to classified information, Clinton sure as shit should have been able to do the same. There were months of debate and outcry leading up to that vote; she had plenty of time to examine not only evidence for and against the war.

But instead of doing that with any great diligence, she instead became the only Senate Democrat to make the erroneous claim that Saddam had ties to al-Qaeda in that very same floor speech this article cites as proof of her desire for diplomacy.

If you want diplomacy, don't vote on a bill called the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002" and act contrite and betrayed when that authorized force is used, and don't vote against a substitute amendment that would have required the Bush administration to return to Congress and ask for another war resolution if UN

[vindictaa]

Ugh, yes, thank you for this comment

[sugartitty]

Applauding this entire comment

[jeeelim5]

Bless this comment (and thanks for all the links!)

[lightframes]

Thanks for the links.