An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton

[Martin Eden]

226. Utterly false equivalency

I have never made a "mistake" that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead people and trillions of dollars of debt. The vote for war with Iraq cannot be compared, even remotely, to any decision the average person will ever make -- and certainly not the kind of mistakes related to domestic finances & family issues.

Presidents and US Senators have been put in a position of power, and have been entrusted with great responsibility. They have to make many decisions, and not all issues are equal. They can't be fully versed on every minute detail of relatively inconsequential policies, but matters of war and peace demand an effort to be as informed as possible and to exercise the best judgment.

The Bush administration had been beating the drums for against Iraq for months prior to October 2002. By that time, we here at DU knew all about the PNAC neocon agenda. We knew that assertions of an alliance between Saddam and al Qaeda were BS. There was no doubt that once given the authority, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld would take us into an extremely ill-advised war.

There is NO excuse for Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, et al not to know this. They (take your pick):
a) were simply too incompetent to hold the office of US Senator
b) were on board with the neocon agenda
c) testing the political winds of the moment rather than doing the responsible thing the American people


Here's an analogy for you:
Your teenage daughter will begin dating boys. Would you rather she date a boy who earlier made a "mistake" that got his previous girlfriend in serious trouble, or a boy who, as far as you can tell, is a pretty good kid?