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Home Front: Politix
Hildebeast defends her Iraq war vote .. sorta
2005-11-30
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her vote to authorize war in Iraq amid growing unease among liberal Democrats who could determine the potential 2008 presidential candidate's future. ``I take responsibility for my vote, and I, along with a majority of Americans, expect the president and his administration to take responsibility for the false assurances, faulty evidence and mismanagement of the war,'' the New York senator said in a lengthy letter to thousands of people who have written her about the war.

At the same time, she said the United States must ``finish what it started'' in Iraq.

The 1,600-word letter was sent, mainly through e-mail to her potential contributors, on Tuesday - a day before President Bush was to deliver a speech on his Iraqi policies. In her letter to voters, the senator cited prewar assurances from the White House that the United States would use the United Nations to resolve the issue of Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.
And as you doubtless can't recall, that's just what Dubya did, until the UN proved itself useless and ineffective.
``Based on the information that we have today, Congress never would have been asked to give the president authority to use force against Iraq,'' she said. Clinton stopped short of saying her vote was a mistake, the political path chosen by two other potential Democratic candidates - former vice presidential candidate John Edwards and Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.

``Given years of assurances that the war was nearly over and that the insurgents were in their 'last throes,'' this administration was either not being honest with the American people or did not know what was going on in Iraq,'' she wrote.
The constitution is done, elections for a new government are coming, the security forces are improving -- what part of 'improving' did you miss?
``It is time for the president to stop serving up platitudes and present us with a plan for finishing this war with success and honor,'' she wrote.
Bush did. We win, the terrorists lose.
Clinton, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said earlier this month it would be a ``big mistake'' for U.S. troops to pull out immediately. She stuck with that line Tuesday. ``America has a big job to do now. We must set reasonable goals to finish what we started and successfully turn over Iraqi security to Iraqis,'' she wrote.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Hil is trying to do what Bill did, that is, convince two or more factions of supporters that she is on their side.

Rantburgians are not her target audience. Her target audiences are: 1. potential financial donors who are don't feel comfortable with the cut-and-run and 2. potential financial donors who advocate cut-and-run. Whether she succeeds or not will be measured in how much her PAC (HILLPAC is the only one I know about) or her future exploratory committee is able to raise and the financial resources of her opponents.
Posted by: mhw   2005-11-30 14:31  

#4  "Given years of assurances that the war was nearly over and that the insurgents were in their 'last throes,'' this administration was either not being honest with the American people or did not know what was going on in Iraq,'' she wrote.
The constitution is done, elections for a new government are coming, the security forces are improving -- what part of 'improving' did you miss "


Improving != last throes

Sorry, Cheney will never live that one down.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2005-11-30 13:32  

#3  Yeah baby, show me some thankle, yeah!
Posted by: Raj   2005-11-30 13:10  

#2  Hey HILL, If your old man PULLED OUT a long time ago we wouldn't have to put up w/ your SH*T NOW!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2005-11-30 11:28  

#1  We must set reasonable goals to finish what we started and successfully turn over Iraqi security to Iraqis,'' she the sorry wench wrote.

duhhh, isn't that what 'W' has been saying? What did I miss?
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-11-30 11:06  

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