Reply #13: Um, 1 million people marched in the streets of NYC. Millions more marched all over the world.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

22 of her fellow Senators voted against the war. As did the majority of Dem Reps in the House. Carl Levin warned that the NIE was not showing that Iraq had what Bushco was claiming it did. She voted against Levin's amendment to bring inspectors back in.

It should also be noted that the people who brought us this debacle, the neo-cons, are the same jokers who formed the PNAC in the late 90s and tried to get Bill to invade Iraq then. He told them to go pound sand. If anyone should have known what they were up to, it should have been Hillary Clinton. There is no excuse for her. Don't go comparing her to average Americans who were duped by the media (though obviously not all of us were) because she had resources at her disposal that none of us have.

Her IWR vote may not be the sole cause of what ensued, but it was craven, calculating, and cynical nonetheless. It was all about positioning herself as being "tough enough" to be POTUS. Assuming the best case scenario, that the war would be over in a few weeks and the Iraqis would greet us with flowers and candy, she was still voting to drop bombs on civilians. A few hundred or a few thousand deaths was an acceptable price for her ambition.

And let's not even talk about her Kyl-Lieberman vote or her vote against banning cluster bombs.