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In S.F., Clinton explains vote for Iraq war
Sacramento Bee ^ | 1/29/6 | Herbert A. Sample

Posted on 01/29/2006 9:48:43 AM PST by SmithL

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. senator and possible presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in San Francisco on Saturday night for a friendly discussion on her life, her husband and her future. But it's her views on Iraq that have upset some California Democrats.

Clinton, New York's junior senator and wife of former President Clinton, was interviewed before a crowd of about 1,600 at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium by former television host Jane Pauley as a fundraiser for the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Her spokesman steadfastly refused to describe what else she is doing while in California. Nonetheless, the trip is being seen as one of the first forays into the state for what many believe is a nascent campaign for president in 2008.

So to some liberal Democratic activists, the event offered a chance to press Clinton on her position on the war. And they are not happy.

"We need a woman in the White House," said Suzanne Joi of CodePink, a self-described "woman-initiated" grass-roots anti-war group that held a small protest in the rain outside the auditorium. "But we don't need a woman who acts like a man in the White House, and we don't need a woman who cannot stand up to the Republican right-wing agenda."

Replying to a question from Pauley about why she voted in 2002 to give President Bush authority to wage war in Iraq, Clinton said Bush insisted he needed that authority to prod Iraq into allowing inspectors back into that country. But Bush ultimately misused that authority, Clinton added.

"No matter what one thinks about how President Bush used that authority, we cannot root for failure," Clinton said. "We cannot take actions now that would further undermine whatever chance of stability the new Iraqi government might have."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; hillary; hillary2008; piaps; triangulation
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SO, she was for the war before she was against the war. Where have we heard that before?
1 posted on 01/29/2006 9:48:46 AM PST by SmithL
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Why wouldn't San Francisco believe that she was duped. She spent 8 years being publicly duped while living in the White House.


2 posted on 01/29/2006 9:50:09 AM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: SmithL

Why can't the smartest woman/senator in the world take questions from people in the audience in a state she does not represent from people that can't vote for her?


3 posted on 01/29/2006 9:52:56 AM PST by isthisnickcool (Quoting Hillary Clinton: "You know, you know, you know, you know.....")
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To: SmithL
The old familiar "I voted for the war because I thought Bush was just bluffing" excuse.

I can't believe anybody could seriously be considering voting for this lump of equivocations and ankle fat.

4 posted on 01/29/2006 9:53:47 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SmithL
Chillary on Larry Ling Lie - 04/2004.

"Obviously, I've thought about that a lot in the months since," she said. "No, I don't regret giving the president authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States, and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade."

So which is it ?
The WWW makes liars out of most everybody...an the Rats haven't figure it out yet.
5 posted on 01/29/2006 9:55:09 AM PST by stylin19a (God does not apply to your alloted time, the hours spent playing golf.)
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To: SmithL
"No matter what one thinks about how President Bush used that authority, we cannot root for failure," Clinton said. "We cannot take actions now that would further undermine whatever chance of stability the new Iraqi government might have."

She's such a liar. Failure is the only thing she and the democrats DO root for.

6 posted on 01/29/2006 10:02:16 AM PST by b4its2late (If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough!)
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To: stylin19a

7 posted on 01/29/2006 10:03:33 AM PST by sono (Ted Kennedy's naming his dog Splash is like Jack Abramoff naming his dog Bribe.)
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To: SmithL

If she is so vulnerable to being fooled by that half-wit, President Bush (sic), why on earth would anyone want her to run an administration facing the thugs, liars and thieves around the world?

If Dems can't see through Bush's strategery, they're too stupid to govern, and ought to slink away!

Pinz
ps. All negative aspersions have been approved by the DNC ;-)


8 posted on 01/29/2006 10:07:18 AM PST by pinz-n-needlez
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To: SmithL
Why wouldn't San Francisco believe that she was duped. She spent 8 years being publicly duped while living in the White House.

...and another umpteen years getting duped by the same white trash loser who was perpetually erect.

9 posted on 01/29/2006 10:12:55 AM PST by Fruitbat
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To: SmithL
"Clinton said Bush insisted he needed that authority to prod Iraq into allowing inspectors back into that country. But Bush ultimately misused that authority, Clinton added."

That is an out and out lie. It is going to be interesting to see how she plays her hand in the upcoming months. Hilly is not the smooth talker that Billy is.
10 posted on 01/29/2006 10:13:25 AM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: SmithL

I read a couple of days ago that this event was not sold out. There were about a thousand seats available out of 3000.


11 posted on 01/29/2006 10:20:25 AM PST by Uncle Hal
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To: dead; All

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HILLARY slowed down BUSH's push to bring Freedom to Iraq by constantly calling for him to go to the UN first and to address North Korea instead.

Just long enough for fifty-two 747 air cargo planes full of Saddam's WMD's to get from Bagdhad to Syria, perhaps..?

The enemy is now within...
and always has been, it appears.

.


12 posted on 01/29/2006 10:20:32 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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But we don't need a woman who acts like a man in the White House

Sounds like gender bias hate speech to me. Except that it was spoken by a 'womyn', so she (it?) gets off with a free pass. Never mind...

13 posted on 01/29/2006 10:21:14 AM PST by Zeppo
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To: SmithL

So now these women are advocating that we have to have a woman president? And that woman can't act like a man? So are women a superior species now? Are they sexist?


14 posted on 01/29/2006 10:21:28 AM PST by Almondjoy
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To: SmithL

What is it about these people? Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Clintoon, The Beast, Carter... they never STFU!


15 posted on 01/29/2006 10:44:08 AM PST by Cobra64
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To: SmithL

Classic leftist logic. "Yes, I voted for the war, but I didn't think that it would really mean anything".

Can't these scumbag leftists standby their decisions just once.


16 posted on 01/29/2006 10:47:40 AM PST by frankiep
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To: Almondjoy

Yeah I'd say they have lost their focus. How about voting for the best qualified "person" regardless of their sex.


17 posted on 01/29/2006 10:50:26 AM PST by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: SmithL

She didn't know that she was voting for military action just like she didn't know her husband was banging the help!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


18 posted on 01/29/2006 10:50:29 AM PST by bray (President Bush Protects America. The Rats Protect Terrorists.)
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To: SmithL

oh no comments really. I'm just laughing so hard.


19 posted on 01/29/2006 10:52:55 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than anyone will ever know. He's A++)
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To: SmithL
.S. senator and possible presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in San Francisco on Saturday night for a friendly discussion on her life, her husband and her future.

Guess this explains why Brokeback Mountain attendance was down in its home viewing region.
20 posted on 01/29/2006 10:59:50 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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