Clinton Tries New Approach on Iraq Vote (says to take a walk)

[rodeodance]

good for her!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/clinton-tries-new-approach-on-iraq-vote/

February 17, 2007, 2:11 pm
Clinton Tries New Approach on Iraq Vote

By Patrick Healy

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking new steps today to deal with the political quandary over her 2002 Iraq vote, issuing a “plan to end the war” that includes a new video and using new language to tell voters that she is willing to lose their support rather than apologize for her 2002 vote.

Mrs. Clinton has been buffeted for months by criticism from antiwar voters, some of whom have pressed her to apologize, or say she made a mistake, with regard to her vote in favor of the 2002 Senate resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq.

Speaking this morning in Dover, N.H., Mrs. Clinton indicated that no apology would be forthcoming.

“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or who has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” she said, a veiled reference to two of her rivals for the Democratic nomination — respectively, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

In Washington today, meanwhile, she is submitting new legislation on Iraq that would require the start of a phased redeployment of troops in 90 days, or else Congress would revoke its 2002 authority resolution; cap the number of American troops in Iraq; and put conditions on the Iraqi government in return for continued American financing. The bill would not cut off funding for any American troops.

[OneBlueSky]

1. “If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote . . .

or who has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from” . . .

which, I fully trust and expect, is precisely what the vast majority of primary voters will end up doing . . .

we don't need no DLC candidates . . . no siree . . .

[donheld]

2. then there are others to choose from” . . .

I'd be happy to oblige her.

[Demeter]

3. Third Decliner Here.....Putting My Vote To Better Use

What is the difference between an arrogant, overprivileged fratboy drunk who refuses to admit to an error and Hillary?

Nothing that I can see.

[mix]

4. the wrong decision :

not to apologize is to prolong the damage of her vote to this country and to her political self-image

this war is a mistake of huge historical proportions, and despite the politicization of the social sciences, this is far from an ideological assertions : historians have long realized this objectively, i.e. with a high degree of consensus

ms. clinton will remain associated with this fiasco as long as she persists in poor judgment