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HuffPo Blog details what Clinton said about Iraq in 2003: Not much.
In a great post on HuffPo, Greg Mitchell does the research to find out what, if anything, Senator Clinton said about the Iraq War. The answer? Not much.
Here's the link followed by the leading paragraph to this blog:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/as-war-neared-in-2003-_b_91747.html
Wherever you stand on the Obama/Clinton race, one thing nearly everyone agrees on is this: She voted for the war resolution in 2002, has not apologized for that vote since - but now says the resolution did not really authorize the war and calls the 2003 invasion a mistake. But what did she do in attempting to halt the war - which she felt she did not authorize -- in the two weeks before it began? Apparently, nothing.
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Comments (5)
What has Senator Obama done to stop or contain the war in Iraq, besides letting us know constantly that he was against the war. Does he have any votes against it or its funding, etc.
March 16, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
The original 03/06/03 Joyce Purnick article describing Hillary's position(s) on the war can be found here:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5D9123FF935A35750C0A9659C8B63&st=cse&sq=Joyce+Purnick+clinton+iraq&scp=13
I've pasted an excerpt from the article below. Notice the unintentionally hilarious last parenthetical sentence. In it, Joyce Purnick manages to both anticipate and undermine the "3am" ad's argument five years before it was even made:
"THE award for the most indefinite position has to go to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. When her press secretary, Philippe Reines, was asked her position, he sent a transcript of Mrs. Clinton's remarks last Friday on CNN and a news account of her comments on Monday during a visit to Watervliet, N.Y. (It seems that the senator, still a bit first ladylike, is reluctant to pick up the phone.)"
March 16, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eab_1201152136
March 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the link above:
"This is a very difficult vote, this is probably the hardest decision I've ever had to make. Any vote that might lead to war should be hard, but I cast it with conviction."
Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York)
Addressing the US Senate
October 10, 2002
She's not only a resume padder, but a bold faced liar. 'nuff said.
March 16, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the Iraq vote is a tough play for Clinton. I'm sure it will do well in the GE, where she can claim that she was told of the WMD (my favorite phrases these days), but it plays poorly in the progressive crowd. My only regret is that Obama wasn't in the Senate then so he could vote no, and silence the critics who said all he did was give a speech.
March 16, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
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