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In reply to the discussion: Wow! DU finally decided that bashing Democratic pres candidates might not be the best thing to do! [View all]okaawhatever
(9,565 posts)information back then that she has now. The fact of the matter is, the Bush administration hid quite a bit of intelligence to frame a narrative. Not to mention the lies about yellow cake and WMD. The American public was for the war. Her constituents were very much for the war. People in New York were reading Judith Miller and were disinformed.
Hillary was one of the first to become critical and change her position on it.
Hillary admitted in her book that she got the Iraq ware decision wrong.
I don't vote on one issue and I understand that she voted the way her constituents wanted her to. It's easy to assume a candidate who wasn't a member of congress in 2003 wouldn't have voted for the war, but we don't know that. Given the same information, the same constituency, and the same public support those candidates may have voted for the war.
Disqualifying Hillary based on one vote, when the other candidate didn't vote at all is disengenuous.