Reply #90: what did Iraq have to do with attacks on US soil?

[leftchick]

wtf? That is ridiculous and fuck NO! Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and or integrity voted NO!

Read this....

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11954


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Clinton sold out 4,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, not to mention a couple trillion of your and your childrens' money, for political advantage in 2002 -- as a safe cushion, that is, for 2008. It was as simple as that: others' lives and the U.S. Treasury for her shot at the White House.

The Democratic base knows it and independents know it. Hers was a calculated exchange, as cold-blooded, impersonal and politically clinical as they come. And now the electorate is reciprocating. There would have been no "Obama phenomenon" for Hillary to suffer without it. The same goes for John Edwards.

There's not a soul alive who believes that any member of Congress honestly believed that Iraq was a grave threat to national security, one in need of a military intervention that virtually every Middle East expert said would blow up in our faces. I'm no expert and I knew better -- how could a United States senator not have known?

It was just pure politics: Republicans wanting to capitalize on hypernationalistic gung-hoism and a grotesquely large segment of gutless Democrats not wanting to be left behind.

Clinton is now paying for it, Edwards is paying for it, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd have already paid for it. Simple as that.