2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: But Bernie’s been consistent!!!! [View all]JTShroyer
(246 posts)Hillary never voted for a "war with Iraq" bill. She voted for an authorization bill that was meant to give the President ALL options -- war being a last resort.
Hillary gave Bush the authorization to go to war as a *last* resort. Bush went to war as a *first* resort. Bush also didnt let the UN inspectors finish their job, something he said he would let them do. Why dont Hillary-haters have a good grasp of history!?!?
Hillary already said she regrets giving Bush the authorization for the war. But she trusted him in the aftermath of 9/11, something most Americans regrettably did. Patriotism and trust was at an all-time high after 9/11/2001, and no one thought Bush would go into Iraq before the inspectors were finished.
Bernie supported funding the war, so he gets to claim he voted against the Iraq war, yet didnt do anything to actually stop it.
Hillary Clinton on the Iraq War:
Well, I have said repeatedly that if I had known then what I know now, I never would have voted to give the president authority.
It was a mistake to trust George Bush that he would do what he told all of us he would do.
Now, I do not think that that is a necessarily wrong judgment at the time.
What was wrong is the way this president misused the authority that some of us here gave him. And that has been a tragedy.