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In reply to the discussion: Officials: Scant evidence that Clinton had malicious intent in handling of emails [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)It isn't to be excused because nearly everyone else made a poor decision too.
The same logic could be applied to the Nazis and their following of Hitler. The made a bad decision right? But so did the rest of them so it is just fine. They should not have hung all of those war criminals after the Nuremburg Trials.
It would be one thing if she supported the war in its onset and then quickly changed her tune when it quickly became obvious that it was a mistake, but it took her more than a decade to do so. The evidence was right in front of her face and she still couldn't see it until 2015 that Iraq was a mistake - more than a decade after it was apparent to nearly everyone else!
Speaking of not having a clue, Hillary has no clue of the pain she inflicted on the people of Iraq or the military members that her vote sent over there. Remember the speech where she claimed that the Iraqis received the best gift anyone nation could receive, the gift of freedom? As a guy who deployed to Iraq as an Infantry Platoon Leader, I saw first hand what the freedom I gave the Iraqi people looked like and it wasn't the sort of thing that would make you feel especially patriotic.
Anyone who ever supported that war on Iraq should be automatically disqualified from ever holding public office again - with no exceptions. Hillary's stance on Libya and Syria while she was SOS is just more evidence that she is prone to making piss-poor decisions regarding foreign policy. Then, again, look at the company she keeps. I don't even have to post photos of her, her husband and the bush family being all chummy. That, in itself, is unforgivable.
I'm a totally disabled veteran that was produced by that war on Iraq and I take the actions of anyone who supported that war very personally. I joined the Army in 1997 as a stupid kid believing that we had learned our lessons from Vietnam and other conflicts and that our military would be used as a tool for good - to stop genocide and to make the world a better place (as was evident to me in after the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord where NATO took over the failed UN mission in Kosovo). Politicians like the bushes and Clintons took advantage of my good nature and sent me into harms way for their misguided views and because the vote, at the time, was the politically expedient thing to do for their careers.
Hillary might have some foreign policy experience, but it is filled with a record of making the wrong decisions.