Reply #74: I don't understand your anwer

[Stephanie]

She voted for the war, and she does not regret her vote.

If you support NAFTA I don't know what to say - I guess your job is secure or you are independently wealthy. The rest of us are sweating.

You say that "virtually" every candidate gets corporate dollars, and I am telling you that Jonathan Tasini does not, and that's a big point in his favor. Do you think it's a good thing to accept large corporate donations? How are we going to fix the system if we just accept things because "everyone" does it?

Did you know that Hillary was on the board of Walmart?

I think you have middle-of-the-road views, and so you are taken with your middle-of-the-road candidate. I prefer a progressive. I will vote my conscience. And fortunately, you will not be voting in this NY primary.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is not sorry she voted for a resolution authorizing President Bush to take military action in Iraq despite the recent problems there but she does regret "the way the president used the authority."

"How could they have been so poorly prepared for the aftermath of the toppling of Saddam Hussein?" the New York Democrat asked Tuesday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

"I don't understand how they had such an unrealistic view of what was going to happen."

April has become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Iraq since the war began more than a year ago. The U.S.-led coalition faces insurrections on several fronts, including the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and the militia of a Shiite Muslim cleric in Najaf in the south.

To the disappointment of some antiwar liberals in her Democratic base, Clinton, the former first lady, voted in favor of the Iraq war resolution in October 2002.

"Obviously, I've thought about that a lot in the months since," she said. "No, I don't regret giving the president authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States, and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade."