Why did Hillary support the war in Iraq for years before running for president?

Question

urmentor (below) Wow! What is the Star Gate address to the parallel universe you are describing?

Answer 1

Hillary Clinton's actions directly mirrors whatever is popular to do or say at the moment.
For example: If she's surrounded by Christians she'll say she's a Christian or if she's surrounded by Atheists she'll claim to be an Atheist.
If the majority of the crowd she's surrounded by is anti-war then she'll also be anti-war but if she's around mostly pro-war people then she'll be 100% supportive for the war.
Hillary Clinton is like a Chameleon in the sense that she can blend in no matter where she is by changing her views and personality to directly reflect those who are the majority of the people she's surrounded by at any given moment.
So what it mainly boils down to is this:
VOTES VOTES AND MORE VOTES!!!!
If she has to pretend or lie to get your votes then by golly that's exactly what she's going to do.
But if she's elected President then you can rest assured all bets are off.

Answer 2

She's all in prefer of the war as all the presidential applicants are. seem, we at the instant are not getting out of Iraq every time quickly in any respect. The Democrat living house and Senate vs Bush is a puppet coach and does no longer mean jack. while you're nicely-known of the actual reason we are interior the middle east, you will know the U. S. is in basic terms extremely below a million/2 thank you to ending it is purpose. it is approximately time that persons awaken to the chilly info that we at the instant are not combating terrorism interior the middle east. very almost seven-hundred,000 ineffective Iraqis could make it easier to recognize something.

Answer 3

Dude....She's against it NOW! So are 3/4 of the American public. And, guess what? You and the rest of the reactionary right are scare out of your minds of Sen. Clinton because you KNOW that if elected she's going to expose all the dirty dealing that the Bush Junta is guilty of in regards to this entire middle east screwup. Yep! No more hiding behind 'national security'. YOU WILL BE REVEALED! Bush will probably get away with it, because he's just the front man for the worst pack of rats in American history, but he'll never leave Crawford again unless he enjoys being booed. Cheney will likely have his last heart attack in prison. ...to bad for him! Rice will suddenly not have a friend in the world and the neo- conservative movement will be cold stone dead in the market! The 'conservatives' had their chance to take up some kind of legitimate position in American politics, but the just couln't stand not having it all. But to have it all meant trashing the spirit of the constitution and that politically was 'a bridge too far'! Somewhere in the distance, I hear the fat lady singing!

Answer 4

I really doubt she is for or against the war in Iraq as a matter of principle. I think she supports it or is against it based on what she thinks will get her to her goal (being the first female U.S. President). She is the best practitioner of Realpolitik* since Richard Nixon (the Conservative Republican that made friends with Communist Russia and China and gave us the EPA).

* Otto Von Bismarck and Napoleon were also practitioners of Realpolitik, Bismarck came up with the concept of government old age pensions (social security) and Napoleon did social things like public universities. Hillary will embrace a lot of Conservative policies as a means of appeasing the Right. Usually Leftists like Hillary aren't good at Realpolitik, but she is.

Answer 5

I am an anti-war liberal democrat... always have been.

But sometimes it didn't seem like a bad idea to go to war with the information that we were being spoon-fed by the media...

They kept scaring the crap out of all of us with those damned color bars on all the TV stations...

You have to keep in mind, all these votes for the war were when Condi kept coming on TV to tell us about the Axis of Evil that was planning a chemical and biological attack on us... we were ALL a little scared....

Now that certain things have come to light, we realize that the FOX/Bush/Cheney family has been running a little crime spree on America.

And to Adelaide - Hillary has always been a Christian.. she has never claimed to be an atheist... but she does tend to vote according to the majority... which is good.

Answer 6

Hillary didn't want to be seen as unpatriotic and so supported what she and others thought would be a quick and decisive victory in Iraq. And if Bush had been serious about Mission Accomplished in May 2003, they would all have been correct.

But of course Bush never meant for Iraq to be quick and easy. He means to stay there for decades. And now those who supported that moment of insanity see that sometimes the wrong decision can haunt you for a loooonng time.

Unfortunately, it says a lot about Hillary's character. She seems prone to do what is personally and politicaly expedient instead of what is right for the nation.

Sometimes doing the right thing is very hard. And of course we see her doing the same thing by supporting Bush's next course of insanity in Iran.

Answer 7

I am going to answer this question with honesty and truth. Despite the fact that you obviously disfavor Hillary, among with many others, I believe her and the rest of the members of the Congress were misled. They were misled by GWB to believe that Iraq was hiding WMD and played apart in the 9/11 attacks. Because of this, that's why many citizens and politicians label this war as illegal even after the Congress approved it due to the fact that they were feed into GWB false pretenses for the invasion. That is the truth. So, in Hillary defense, I believe like many others she was tricked.

Answer 8

Hillary will support ANYTHING that will garner the MOST VOTES in the upcoming Primaries/ Presidential election. She is the most 'non committal' candidate in history and the general public is buying her B.S (NY anyone?)

Watch her closely. The moment momentum sways in the other direction...she will 180 again. The only upside to her possible presidency...Bill Clinton as the First Lady.

Answer 9

WC I beg to differ.... in a polite debate
http://freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes
alot of reading, pls take the time :)
As President Clinton firmly believed Saddam had WMD and also the capacity to create a nuclear weapon he initiated assaults in Iraq, Sudan & Afghanistan.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/iraq1.html
The Persian Gulf War for one.
These raids were midnight bombings. Regardless
of collateral damage. Thousands of innocents died.
Had he declared War as Bush did, btw note the support
given by HRC with "prior" secret info she had...
Land forces are more capable of reducing those deaths.
Yet we were not prepared or armed for IED's. To me that a WMD as the numbers added up to be the worst reason for
dead and injury in Iraq for our brave troops.

Senator Clinton, Hillary, whole heartedly supported the war because of facts she had. Where the WMD went? If you read up you'll find the weapons inspectors were kicked out early on then returned with a long time notice of arrival date. With Iran and each border being a simple day trip away the items were removed. These people are bedouins anyway. Used to moving about. Casings were found and some evidence did exist. Our initial forces were also faced with gaseous assaults not reported. Unless you talk one on one to a soldier. We failed them at first. Yes, I agree. Now Commanders have been replaced and the death tolls are dwindling.

It is candidate Clinton that does not support the Republican party she so despises. She actually began as a Young Republican... It no longer behoves her interests to agree with anything President Bush does. Regardless if just a short while ago she agreed. Politics as usual. With Clinton's expect the obvious. Because as you so aptly point out, it must have been a mistake? Thanks for letting me answer here.
I shall look for more of my links to help out... cya around!

edit: After careful review of answers here... lies ? Just try research people for goodness sake !!!

Answer 10

It was a political calculation. She thought the war would be over in a month and the public would punish any politician that was against it.

This is incredibly cynical of me but I think if the war really was over in a month, no WMD's were found, but we succesfully installed a puppet government, and US oil companies took over Iraq's oil supplies, the public wouldn't care if we were lied to about WMD's.

The public doesn't really mind being lied to about our foreign policy as long as we're victorious. It's when we start taking casualties with no end in sight that the public begins to care about what we're really fighting for.