Posted on 11/27/2005 11:14:50 AM PST by wagglebee
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won't say whether she read a key intelligence report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before she voted in Oct. 2002 to authorize the Iraq war.
Asked directly by the Boston Herald whether she did her homework by reading the report on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's WMDs, the paper reports that the Democratic frontrunner "declined to say."
Though billed in the press as a supporter of the war, the former first lady has been highly critical of the Bush administration's so-called rush to judgment of Iraq's pre-war threat.
But in Oct. 2002, while explaining why she intended to vote for the war, Clinton clearly left the impression that she had read all the intel on Saddam's WMDs that she could get her hands on.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile-delivery capability and his nuclear program," she told the Senate before voting to authorize the war.
Asked last month whether she regretted her vote, Mrs. Clinton told NPR: "You know, I really can't talk about this on the fly. It's too important."
Her Royal Highness declined to say, and a palace spokesman stated that the Queen considers this matter closed.
Debates could be a wooden stake.
I thought Hilary's Mum was dead.
But according to Biden and Kerry, they really didn't vote on going to war. Just voted on talking about maybe going to war sometime, possibly, or maybe not.
She seems to be the "Queen of No Comment" to me. A serious debate with a good opponent would be SO MUCH FUN to watch!
H*****y's performance against Rick Lazio was very poor. Just about anyone could clean her clock in a debate.
If she doesn't know what-all about Iraq by now, she's clearly unqualified to go back to the WH to deal with it. Not that her evil followers care.
Note to self... restate question as: Did you read the reports in Sandy's pants, elsewhere or both oh cloven hooved, forked tongued one?
"I don't recall."
Would that be like the 12,979th time she used that response... as we know of?
"Hillary Clinton Mum" ----- Damn........... that's the quietest Chappaqua Rose has been since she slept with Bill at the Reagan funeral.
With Condi!
I'm afraid we're going to be getting "triangulation strangulation" until Nov. '06
Nooooo, it's the 19.159th.
A foreshadowing of the MONSTEROUS PROBLEM Hitlery, aka The World's Smartest Women", will have when running in 08. She is in reality dumb as an ox when having to think for herself and on her feet. She's a complete phony and does not know what the 'correct' answer-du-jour is, unless she consults with her advisers or spends much time thinking through the various answers.
"Hillary's choice was not to know what she knew." -- Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy
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