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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 10:46 PM Jun 2014

Hillary Clinton on Iraq vote: ‘I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.’

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her strongest language yet about her 2002 Senate vote to authorize military action in Iraq, writes in her forthcoming memoir that "I still got it wrong," CBS News reported Thursday afternoon.

In "Hard Choices," Clinton, a former secretary of state and former U.S. senator who is exploring a 2016 presidential campaign, writes: "[M]any Senators came to wish they had voted against the resolution. I was one of them. As the war dragged on, with every letter I sent to a family in New York who had lost a son or daughter, a father or mother, my mistake become (sic) more painful."

Clinton continues, "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."

The rest: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/05/hillary-clinton-on-iraq-vote-i-still-got-it-wrong-plain-and-simple/

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Hillary Clinton on Iraq vote: ‘I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.’ (Original Post) JaneyVee Jun 2014 OP
While it's not quite an apology, at least she admits that Stardust Jun 2014 #1
I guess she finally realizes that the vote she and others who were planning to run for president sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #2

Stardust

(3,894 posts)
1. While it's not quite an apology, at least she admits that
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:12 PM
Jun 2014

she made a mistake. Now I can vote for her with fewer qualms, I guess.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
2. I guess she finally realizes that the vote she and others who were planning to run for president
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 03:06 PM
Jun 2014

back then, THOUGHT would be beneficial to their political careers found out that that was not the case. Most of them apologized as soon as they announced they were running. This is the first time I've heard Hillary say she regretted it.

Sen. Byrd voted right before her on that fateful day airc. She should have listened to his historical speech. Because he mentioned the Iraqis who would die, one of the only Senators to do so airc, showing his humanitarian concerns for the innocents who would die IF the warmongers were not stopped.

I remember standing up and applauding that speech, then it was Hillary's turn. I was ready to do the same for her. And then she sheepishly 'explained' why she would be voting to give unbelievable powers to an OBVIOUS LIAR.

Sorry, but that was the most important vote of their careers.

And according to reports, they had access to the full reports on Iraq's WMDs. Seeing those reports changed some of their minds. Hillary chose not to look at them. So now she can say 'I did in good faith.'

I want to ask those who excuse those Dems who gave Bush those powers. They had far more access to information than people like us, yet WE KNEW they were lying, and people like Hillary did not?? She had to wait years to 'see the dead' before realizing, as Sen. Byrd certainly did, that people DIE IN WARS? And that BECAUSE of that a vote to empower a president to go to war is the most important decision an elected official will have to make.

I want leaders who don't have to be sorry after SO many have died.

I want leaders who get it right when they can PREVENT those deaths.

Too late to be sorry for millions of victims.

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