Reply #30: Yes, she could have known.

[Clark2008]

Geesch. Anyone with half a brain, Google and a modicum of Middle Eastern knowledge COULD have known. I was a friggin' housewife (as opposed to a handsomely-paid foreign policy expert) at the time and I knew!

I knew Saddam wasn't the threat he was being made out to be. I knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. I knew this war wouldn't be "a cakewalk." Heck, I even knew that he most likely didn't have WMDs because of the restrictions placed on his country.

I knew all these things because I researched and paid attention to the people who WOULD know, not the people I wanted to believe.

Do I think I'm better than Edwards or anyone else who voted "yes?" Hell, yes I do! I was RIGHT. I LISTENED to Scott Ritter and Hans Blix and Wesley Clark and a host of Middle Eastern experts instead of political hacks. I didn't blow it off to "retain" a Senate seat or run for fucking president.