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DevonRex

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26. Let me get this straight.

Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:38 PM

Apr 2012

Some Code Pink women "visited Iraq" and because of that "visit" that made them experts on Iraq and more knowledgeable on Iraq than SOS Hillary Clinton? They "knew the truth better than Hillary did"? Really?

They "tried to warn her that she was making a mistake" and she was rude to them so she owes them an apology. And she owes you an apology since you've seen the ugly side of Hillary Clinton? That about sum it up?

First, I admire Code Pink immensely. Second, any group like that takes its chances when speaking to a powerful person with the full weight of an entire department behind them which does massive amounts of research on a daily basis and has up-to-the second information at its fingertips. Third, Hillary wasn't new at this, even back then, whenever it was. She's been in this a long, long time. Her "preconceived ideas" came from years of immersion in the affairs of this country, as the First Lady, as a Senator and now as SoS.

If Code Pink went in with the attitude that she was "new" at the game and that they knew better, having decided to form a group and having visited Iraq once, then they just "might" have offended the Secretary of State of the United States right from the get go. Just a hunch.

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