The Iraq war cost $2 trillion, and ISIS wouldn’t exist without it.
She voted against the Levin amendment to pursue a diplomatic solution.
Senator Levin’s amendment called for United Nations approval before force could be authorized. It was unambiguous and compatible with international law. Acutely cognizant of the dangers of the time, and the reality that diplomatic options could at some point be exhausted, Senator Levin wrote an amendment that was nimble: it affirmed that Congress would stand at the ready to reconsider the use of force if, in the judgment of the president, a United Nations resolution was not “promptly adopted” or enforced. Ceding no rights or sovereignty to an international body, the amendment explicitly avowed America’s right to defend itself if threatened.
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When she voted against that amendment and for the Iraq war, she repeated all the Bush administration lies.
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001.
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.
Now this much is undisputed. The open questions are: what should we do about it? How, when, and with whom?
And that's hardly the only lie in there.
Other Democrats who voted yes thought this claim was totally bunk. Even Lieberman said it was't proven. And yet she stated it as fact.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., "actively assailed the reports of Al Qaeda in Iraq, calling them 'much exaggerated.' Senator Dianne Feinstein of California described any link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda as 'tenuous.' The Democratic senator who came closest to echoing Clinton’s remarks about Hussein’s supposed assistance to Al Qaeda was Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Yet even Lieberman noted that 'the relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam’s regime is a subject of intense debate within the intelligence community.'"
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She voted for war without reading the intelligence reports.
Senators Bob Graham and Dick Durbin pushed to have an intelligence report made available to every Senator. Graham said every Senator should read it, and warned of Senators having “blood on their hands”. Of course he voted no.
Senators Bob Graham and Patrick Leahy would later say that reading the classified version helped convince them to vote ‘no.’ And during a lunch two days before Clinton’s speech, according to Gerth and Van Natta Jr., Graham “forcefully” urged his Democratic Senate colleagues to read it.
Few did. Using logs of who entered the secure room where the classified NIE was kept, The Washington Post reported that only six senators read it. When The Hill newspaper later polled senators, 22 said they had.
Clinton has never claimed to be among them. When asked directly on Meet the Press in 2008, she sidestepped the question, declaring, “I was fully briefed by the people who wrote that.”
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It’s been openly admitted that the Bush administration lied about the Iraq intelligence.
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So what does Hillary think of George W Bush these days? Well, she just thanked him yesterday. Would it be too much to ask for her to repudiate George W Bush?
