2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 10 common objections to Hillary Clinton - and how to counter them [View all]Vattel
(9,289 posts)"Hillary enacted President Obama's policies as SOS." She did argue in favor of violent regime change in Libya. And she did argue in favor of even larger troop increases in Afghanistan than Obama approved.
"Removing it entirely and hoping to get something even more left-wing passed is not reasonable in our political climate." No one on the left supports removing Obamacare entirely and then trying to get something better passed.
"For me, I can forgive a mistake like that, because lots of other intelligent, thoughtful people made the same mistake, fell for the same lies, and GWB absolutely DID abuse the limited authority given to him by that vote." Clinton failed to read the NIE report prior to the vote, and that report cast doubt on some of Bush's lies. Also, prior to the war, Clinton told the Code Pink people that she believed Hussein would not comply with the required weapons inspections. So apparently she believed that war was coming and didn't object. Even on the eve of the invasion, she did not oppose the invasion. And as for Bush's "limited authority," the IWR gave Bush the authority to invade should he deem it necessary for national self-defense to do so. That was a really broad authority.