There have been comments and replies recently in a diary where one or more people tried to dismiss Bernie Sanders’ vote against invading Iraq. Excuses, excuses, excuses.
I just came across this quote from Hillary Clinton who did vote to invade Iraq who also neglected to read the 92-page NIE report, and this quote from Hillary Clinton is from 2008.
Ms. Clinton since 2008 has said her vote to invade Iraq was “wrong,” but I have yet to read or hear why she thought her vote to invade was wrong and what the bad consequences were.
As Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, prepares to give a major address on Iraq today, I'm reminded how much I was struck by this part of her Friday speech in Pittsburgh, when she sounded as if she were implying that the Iraqi people were entirely to blame for their current troubles.
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"And I believe that at the same time that we have to make clear to the Iraqis that they have been given the greatest gift that a human being can give another human being – the gift of freedom. And it is up to them to decide how they will use that precious gift that has been paid for with the blood and sacrifice and treasure of the United States of America.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/hillary-and-the.html