If anyone in the world had the information and experience to see the truth about Iraq, it was Hillary Clinton. Don't you think someone who spent 8 years in the White House could predict what Iraq would become? Don't you think someone who had been on the Armed Services Committee would know our intelligence was flimsy?
Hillary knew. She knew Bush's rationale for going into Iraq was bulls**t and that our troops would sink in a quagmire once they got there. But she voted for the war anyway. And she didn't just vote yes. She voted "with conviction" that the resolution was "in the best interests of our nation" and told Saddam to "disarm or be disarmed." Why?
We think Hillary approached the Iraq resolution with cold, self-interested logic. Whether she voted "yes" or "no," the outcome would be the same: a year after 9/11 with a Republican majority in Congress, America was definitely going to war with Iraq. Only two things would be affected by Hillary's vote.
The first was her electability. She knew she'd be running for President in a few years. If she voted "no" she'd play into the hands of detractors who would claim that she was soft, that a woman couldn't be trusted with national security.
The second was her integrity. If she voted "yes", she'd speak the lie that she in the world was best-positioned to detect: that Bush had a phony premise and American soldiers would die for it.
She put her electability ahead of her integrity. She put her personal advancement ahead of the lives of American soldiers. She traded votes for death.
It is unconscionable to put someone who made that perverse choice- so publicly, so shamelessly- into the world's highest office. Vote for Edwards, Biden, Obama: anyone but the woman with blood on her hands. HILLARY KNEW.
