The Sanders Campaign Criticism of Clinton's Iraq War Vote

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32. The Best Way to Predict

a person's decision on the next war is to look at how he or she decided on a previous war. What's more relevant than that? It's not as if we were all duped by some really high-level and top-notch 'intelligence' obtained. There were millions of people - me included - who knew that this was an absolutely bullcrap war.

I don't know if I'm right about this or not, but it's the impression I got: She had to have known that the case for an unprovoked war was weak at best, criminal at worst. To say otherwise is to obviate all of the arguments about how highly intelligent she is. She could have taken a brave step and spoken out against the war. I got the feeling that she used this as an opportunity to bone up on her hawkish bona fides because remember, Democrats are branded wimps/doves/pacifists/whatever. It felt like a self-serving political decision instead of the right decision.

Given all of the suffering that transpired all over the world, I don't think she should be given a pass for this. Is she responsible for this war? No. But she is responsible for her voice leading up to it.

If she's faced with another decision like this one during her administration, do you really think she'll back off from a war? I don't, at least not based on what I think was her calculus for this previous decision.