Hillary Clinton Goes Bush League

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187. I posted about the PNAC last night

It fell on totally deaf ears on Hillary supporters. The whole Bush Administration was populated with PNAC founders (including Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz) and, as you said, they had wanted war in Iraq for years. They had urged Bill Clinton to invade and when GWB got in office and appointed Cheney as Vice President and Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary it was a given that we were going to war in Iraq.

The WMD was just an excuse. They may have initially believed it but their real goal relates to their belief that regime change in Iraq would lead to a US types of democracies throughout the middle east. Of course, when they put out the resolution to go to war in Iraq, they knew that the Weapons claims were suspect.

My post was that Hillary, like any really informed person, knew the goals of the PNAC. She may have believed the weapons were there or there was a threat but she had to know that the 2002 Authorization for Military Force in Iraq was a war vote, not a vote for diplomacy because it was authorizing PNAC members.