What do you think? Was Hillary prevaricating about her vote for the war in Iraq then (2003) or now?

Question

Recently, in defense of vote for the war in Iraq Hillary blames Bush exclusively for her ‘lack of intelligence’ in voting for Iraq war:

(Hillary 2007): ”I said that we should not go to war unless we have allies. So he took the authority that I and others gave him and he misused it, and I regret that deeply. And if we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote and I never would have voted to give this president that authority”.

However, in 2003, Hillary, had a different explanation for her vote: ..”that is for Saddam Hussein to disarm. And I have absolutely no belief that he will...I ended up voting for the resolution after carefully reviewing the information, intelligence that I had available, talking with people whose opinions I trusted, tried to discount the political or other factors that I didn't believe should be in any way a part of this decision. I would love to agree with you, but I can't, based on my own understanding and assessment of the situation.

Hillary previously defended going into Iraq without a U.N. Security Counsel resolution (what the liberals are calling an ‘illegal’ war) by offering President Bill’s ‘illegal’ bombing of Bosnia and Kosovo (also without a U.N. Security Counsel resolution) as an example of “U.S. leadership”.

(Hillary) “With respect to whose responsibility it is to disarm Saddam Hussein, I just do not believe that, given the attitudes of many people in the world community today, that there would be a willingness to take on very difficult problems, were it not for the United States leadership, and I'm talking specifically about what had to be done in Bosnia and Kosovo where my husband could not get a Security Council resolution to save the Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing. And we did it alone as the United States, and we had to do it alone. And so I see it somewhat differently. So forgive me for my experience and perspective.”
Was Bill's war also "illegal"?

List of coalition “allies” that had troops in or supported operations in Iraq (I guess Hillary doesn’t consider any of these as allies):

U.K.
South Korea
Australia
Poland
Romania
Denmark
El Salvador
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Latvia
Albania
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Mongolia
Lithuania
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Estonia
Macedonia
Kazakhstan
Moldova
Fiji
Spain
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Philippines
Thailand
New Zealand
Tonga
Portugal
Netherlands
Hungary
Singapore
Norway
Ukraine
Japan
Italy

Please don’t give me the tired old answer that “Bush lied”. The Senate intelligence committee had exactly the same information that President Bush had.


See the Hillary ‘flipflop’ video for yourself on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rOjmDsPg_s

Answer 1

Yeah, she changes with the wind. Back when her husband was president they said intelligence showed there were WMD's and Saddam had to be taken out. Funny how she changes constantly.

Have you noticed she's sounding more and more like Chavez of Venezuela? She's trying to find a way to take profits from the oil companies to put in some bogus fund. That's straight out of the Marxist doctrine. Well, she did study Marx all through college. I guess we expect her to be socialist/communist, but she's got a lot of people fooled.

Answer 2

Hillary's explination about her vote will depend on who she's talking to, how many media personal are there and how long it's been since her last change of position. You gotta remember that she's running for President.

Answer 3

Face it, Bush and his security council set up an elaborate argument to the entire Congress to convince them it was a necessity to go to war. They made all sorts of claims and made it seem that war was the only way to resolve our situation abroad in the Middle East. There were no WMD and if you notice, most of Bush's "people" who were arguing that to the American people stepped down or were replaced. Gee, I wonder why????

Answer 4

Democrats are a joke! I am so NOT voting for Hillary! I hate the Democrats illegal and misleading tactics! I live in a Democratic area and find most of these people are stuck up know it alls that walk around with thier nose ion the air. Anyone talking about equality, Constitutional rights or anything of the sort is black listed. In other words I have to suppress my right to free speech and express them in other ways. Democrats have developed Nazi political tactics and need to be stopped. What Hillary is attempting is just one of them... The Democratic party could use a probe and good washing if you ask me. If they prevail I'm convinced this will be a nation of CROOKS in the not so distant future! God help us!

You are right we still have alot of friends. Give me a few good friends you can trust rather than a host of spinless back stabbers that pollute the system and will end up cutting the throat in the long run...

Answer 5

Hillary? Prevaricate???? Nahhhhhhhhhh. Surely she would take RESPONSIBLITY for her own actions and NOT try to put the blame on anyone else wouldn't she?

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Answer 6

You just made quite a case for Bush being a really good liar.