Neapolitan Hillary
Which Hillary Clinton spoke in Montana today? Or, what position on the war would one like Hillary to take this hour, because when it comes to her position on the war in Iraq, it’s like the flavor of the month.
In Montana today, Clinton was asked about her vote to authorize the war and I Knew Nothing Hillary gave the answer. In fact, nobody in Iraq knew anything about what was going on in Iraq. Moreover, I Knew Nothing Hillary was comfortable with her vote, for this speech.
During a campaign rally in northwest Montana, Hillary Clinton defended her vote for the war in Iraq saying “I’m very comfortable that I made a sincere vote based on my best assessment at the time, and I am more than willing to be held accountable for it.”
“I have said on many occasions that if I had known then what I know now, I never would have voted that way.” Clinton said stopping short of saying that her vote was a mistake, something that anti-war critics continue to hold against her.
“It seems very self-evident today, all these years later that everybody should have known what wasn’t there, but even the Iraqis, their generals and their officials did not know what wasn’t there,” Clinton said.
Indeed. How could Hillary have possibly been expected to read the NIE on Iraq before authorizing a war? Certainly not a U.S. Senator that had eight years Commander-in-Chief experience, so she claims, before they were even a Senator.
On February 26, I Regret Hillary showed up in Cleveland for MSNBC’s Democratic presidential debate.
RUSSERT: Before you go, each of you have talked about your careers in public service. Looking back through them, is there any words or vote that you’d like to take back?
Senator Clinton?
CLINTON: Well, obviously, I’ve said many times that, although my vote on the 2002 authorization regarding Iraq was a sincere vote, I would not have voted that way again.
I would certainly, as president, never have taken us to war in Iraq. And I regret deeply that President Bush waged a preemptive war…
[snip]
RUSSERT: But to be clear, you’d like to have your vote back?
CLINTON: Absolutely. I’ve said that many times.
On June 3, 2007, I Knew Everything Hillary was in control at the Democratic presidential debate in Goffstown, NH.
The three leading candidates also debated whether senators should have read, in 2002, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which made clear there was disagreement within the government over the strength of Iraq’s weapons programs. Asked if she regretted not reading it, Mrs. Clinton replied: “I feel like I was totally briefed. I knew all of the arguments that were being made by everyone from every direction.”
Do they still make Neapolitan ice cream?
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