2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I don't trust her either. On women's issues she could be called "liberal" but her demonstrated support for big corporations and banks lets me know that she really doesn't have the interest of average Americans in mind.
Additionally, her vote and subsequent refusal to apologize for her part of the war on Iraq seriously infuriates me. I'm one of "those disabled vets" produced by that war. My conscience and hands are covered with the blood of dead Iraqis and people who never deserved to be murdered by American forces in the supposed name of freedom.
I've been seriously struggling with psychiatric issues for 10 years and the war continues to destroy every aspect of my life. I've spent roughly 5 months over the last year locked up involuntarily in psych wards because of the war. I've endured two suicide attempts and I constantly feel like I'm one step away from it being final the next time.
My hands shake almost constantly, I see ghosts, I hear things like weapons fire and people calling my name. My marriage is just about over and I have only a skeleton of a relationship with the two people (my daughters) that mean the most me.
Hillary Clinton saying that she has "nothing to be sorry for" when asked if she regretted her war vote in a 2008 interview in an almost matter-of-fact sort of way is hugely offensive. I know most people are quick to forget the war or simply over look it as they have no concept of the violence we unleashed on that country, but I don't get to have those luxuries. I constantly relieve my part of that war in vivid detail when I'm awake and in my dreams. There is no escaping or forgetting about for me.