Remember Project for a New American Century (PNAC)? You know, the out of work gang of neocons plotting a military takeover of certain oil rich countries in the Gulf Region? We all know the names - Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Donald Kagan, I. Lewis Libby, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz.
Remember the letter PNAC sent to President Clinton in 1998 that called for...
"...removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy."
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If Mrs. Clinton is claiming her years as First Lady as part of her "experience" to be Commander-in-Chief, then surely, she must have known about that letter. Surely, the Clintons were fully aware of PNAC and its objectives.
Clearly, when Senator Clinton voted for the Iraq war, she understood the Bush administration's motives for regime change had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction.
So, it's a perfectly legitimate question to ask...
What did Senator Clinton know about PNAC? And when did she know it?
The answer, sadly, is she knew who was behind the push for war, she knew their motivations, and unlike Senator Wellstone and Senator Feingold, she not only voted for it, she helped promote it.
Now she says if she knew then what she knows now, she would not have voted for it.
She knew.