“Actually, she voted to give the president the authorization to go to war so the threat of war would force Saddam Hussein to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq, which it did.”
As a Republican who will happily be voting for McCain, I don’t exactly have a dog in this fight, but I’m commenting because this excerpt really is hair-splitting BS. Read some of Hillary’s speeches on Iraq (or the use of the Armed Forces in geopolitics) from 1999-2001. She was talking about using the force to overthrow Baath and rebuild Iraq while Bush was still pledging “no-nation building.”
If resoponsibility for the war is your big thing, the case can be made that some Democrat Senators, most notably Kerry, voted for the war for “political” reasons or because they thought it would “help inspectors.” That case cannot be made for Clinton, since her vote, and Bush’s subsequent actions, were consistent with everything she had been personally suggesting for years.
If this author would read the words of her preferred candidate instead of listing all the ways some women may or may not be or have been victimized (without making an affirmative case for voting for Clinton–specifically), she would already know that.
