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Monday, June 11, 2007
Star Parker :: Townhall.com Columnist
War, lies and Hillary Clinton
by Star Parker
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The day before Senator Clinton voted for the war resolution, she spoke on the floor of the Senate and talked about "intelligence reports" describing Saddam's rebuilding his WMD stock and about Saddam giving "aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members."

Former President Clinton, husband of the Senator, was, according to the reporters, her chief counsel on the war vote. They quote him saying at the time, "Mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction....He will deploy them and he will use them."

After returning from a trip to Iraq in 2003, Senator Clinton spoke at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York about the situation, saying that "We have no option but to stay involved and committed," and calling her vote "the right vote" and one "I stand by."

Clinton appeared on Meet the Press during a 2005 trip to Iraq, and, again according to Gerth and Van Natta, continued to express confidence in the effort, and opposed withdrawal or a timetable. "We don't want to send a signal to insurgents, to the terrorists, that we are going to be out of here at some, you know, date certain."

The issue here is not making mistakes. The issue is being honest and taking responsibility.

Senator Clinton, in what should be of concern to us all, seems to have a problem with both.

It is simply nauseating to hear from someone who aspires to be president of the United States what we heard from Clinton at the New Hampshire debate. "...this is George Bush's war...He started the war. He mismanaged the war. He is responsible for the war."

There would have been no Iraq invasion without authorization from Congress. Clinton's vote was part of that authorization. It was her war as it was George Bush's war.

Senator Clinton may have not read the National Intelligence Estimate, as she has admitted, before voting for the war. But she certainly was reading the polls. At the time of the vote on the Iraq war, President Bush's approval was at 70 percent.

She was aware, awake, conscious, sober, and responsible when she cast her vote.

A little free campaign advice to Senator Clinton. Americans prefer presidents who tell the truth and take responsibility.

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Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Jun 11, 2007 - 9:54 PM EST
Phylo
You can tit for tat all you want. For every person you seem to think or pick or choose there is a counter point. You pointed to the Downing Street Memo which is suspect at best. That is per Tony Blair not me. However you failed to mention the Butler Commission. Bush did read the NIE assessment along with a whole lot of other assessments. That is how intel works. They work up worst case and best case scenarios. You are picking what suits your agenda the best, not taking it as a whole. Where Bush screwed up was appointing Bremer. If it is important for Bush to read intel it is even more important for the entire Congress to read it since they vote on it and he does not. There are many books out there on this. A new one makes a strong argument for Bush Doctrine. Try reading it if you can.
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Date: Jun 11, 2007 - 9:22 PM EST
Queen Hilly not worried.
Queen Hilly is not worried about her fan club reading the book. Most can not read. The Dem.'s have done such a good job of dumbing down public schools and brain washing their Liberal spill through out teachers and schools, that her base would not understand the book, much less believe any of it. From a politicians standpoint, there is something to the old saying, "Keep them poor and stupid".

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