I know that Hillary and Bill are popular in the world, but here's why I am suspicious of her and do not feel she is qualified to be Secretary of State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYATbsu2cP8I'm sorry. I had a lot of trouble getting this video to load. It took a long time. I assure you it is worth the waiting. This is a must remember forever video.
This video shows the problems with Hillary. She has a lot of experience. That's good because it means she knows a lot of people. But that is also bad because, in this video, she showed herself unwilling to listen to ordinary people who knew better than she did what was going on. And she showed horrible judgment and a lack of carefully considering all the facts, old and new, before making a decision.
Hussein had "a proven track record, if not an obsession" with weapons of mass destruction. Hillary says that in making her decision, she relied on what she had been told and heard in the past. The Code Pink women tell her that they have talked to the UN inspectors and that the inspectors said that Hussein was cooperating. Hillary refused to listen and was strident in her answers to Code Pink. She says that "this has been an extremely difficult decision for me," but she based her decision on her beliefs, on her knowledge of the past. Hillary insisted that she knew better. But Hillary was wrong, wrong, wrong. And Code Pink was right.
What is worse, is that, while Hillary, under pressure after Edwards announced he would withdraw troops from Iraq and after Edwards said he felt his vote for the Iraq War was a mistake, did agree to pull the combat troops out of Iraq before too long, she has never, to my knowledge, ever really admitted that she made a mistake in voting for and in supporting the War in Iraq. Bring me up to date on this if I missed her admission and apology.
Unless Hillary apologizes for her vote in Iraq, Hillary is not change I can believe in. Sorry.
I must admit that my first reaction to the Hillary appointment was that Hillary would be good in the sense that she and Bill have lots of friends around the world. After some thought, I changed my mind, and I think I have good reason for having changed it.
How will Obama maintain his credibility on Iraq and on preemptive war if he chooses as his foreign policy emissary Hillary who supported the war in Iraq and has never apologized for her error?
After Hillary stated without equivocation that she supported Bush's War in Iraq and would vote for it, Hillary said: "I am the senator from New York and I will never put my people's security at risk."
Code Pink answered: "You are, you are, you are."
And Code Pink was right. Hillary's vote for War in Iraq did put our security at risk. And as she acknowledged and predicted in her discussion with Code Pink, it also put our economy at risk. Hillary, in spite of her knowledge that going to war without raising taxes would ruin our country, voted to go to war and has never explained or apologized for that vote to my satisfaction. Nor is she publicly accepting her share of the responsibility for the current economic crisis.
Hillary needs to apologize to the entire world and to the American and Iraqi peoples for that vote for the war. She also needs to apologize for having voted for the war and continued to fund the war with the knowledge of the economic impact that not covering the war costs with increased taxes would have. Unless she does, how can we or the world trust her?
Americans may have short memories, but the rest of the people in the world do not.
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