Posted on 02/18/2007 7:21:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
One of the most important decisions that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., made about her bid for the presidency came late last year, when she ended a debate in her camp over whether she should repudiate her 2002 vote authorizing military action in Iraq.
Several advisers, friends and donors said in interviews that they had urged her to call her vote a mistake to appease anti-war Democrats, who play a critical role in the nominating process. Yet Clinton herself, backed by another faction, never wanted to apologize -- even if she viewed the war as a mistake -- arguing that an apology would be a gimmick.
...."... advisers think she should've uttered the three magic words -- 'I was wrong' -- but she believes it's self-evident that the Senate Iraq resolution was based on false intelligence and never should've come to a vote," said Richard Holbrooke, the former U.N. ambassador and an adviser to Clinton on foreign policy.
....Clinton believes that reversing course on Iraq would invite the charge of flip-flopping that damaged Kerry or provoke the kind of accusations of political expediency that hung over then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000 and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in the 1990s, several advisers said. She has argued to associates in private discussions that Gore and Kerry lost, in part, because they could not convince enough Americans that they were resolute on national security, the associates said.
Clinton's image as a strong leader, in turn, is critical to her hopes of becoming the nation's first female president. According to one adviser, her internal polling indicates that a high proportion of Democrats see her as strong and tough, both assets for a female candidate who is seeking to become commander in chief. Apologizing might hurt that image, this adviser said.
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Now she has screwed the pooch.
Sorry Hillary. You just lost your only chance to be president and protectress of the American people.
Now, that is funny!
Fixed it.
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NEVER FORGET
HILLARY in our Oval Office =
ELIAN's -Cold Dead Eyes- in Cuba
http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a395a99a7020f.htm
NEVER FORGET
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So Clinton's excuse is she ALWAYS votes correctly. But if the votes turns out to be problematic later, then it was someone else's fault.
Oh-yeah that sells....but maybe only in ZIM and Hugoland.
Thanks for the ping!
........“May God forgive me for what I’m about to say, but in cases like this, I swear to you, if I could order someone to be executed, I would order him executed,” President Chávez said last year...
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Visions of Stalin and thousands dead are dancing in my head. The democrats actually adore and praise this man!
I feel sorry for any fence that she straddles.
Americans, the so-called silent majority, better wake up from their stupor, take note of what damage Liberals and RINO's are doing to our country and our children and grandchildren's futures, and they better start speaking up while they still have the freedom to do so. Those Republicans that sat out the last election bear as much blame as the anti-American, anti-military crowd that are desecrating our heritage and destroying our future.
IMO, there is no way that "every" intelligence agency in the world was "wrong." The WMDs are still there (buried in tunnels out in the desert) or they were moved to Syria.
So Hillary is admitting her husband bombed Iraq to distract from Monica's testimony? It really was a multimillion dollar Wag the Dog?
She's admitting it ?????
Just you wait. If anyone ever brings this up to Her Thighness, she will just point out that what The Clinton® did was the right thing, and it was so well done that it took care of the problem once and for all. And, of course, she will say that Bush is so stupid and incompetent that he never realized that The Clinton® had fixed everything.
Remember when they took Elian to a Democrat fundraiser?
The WMDs are in the Euphrates River. There's tunnels under Iraq that go to the edge. That's why they haven't detected them yet. They haven't looked there.
(Gut feeling.)
“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”— Mary McCarthy, on Lillian Hellman.
Well, piles of sand can be a really dangerous thing.(s)
Yes,
I do remember when they brought Little ELIAN to a Democrat fundraiser.
This after a Democrat President CLINTON had already put Little ELIAN into the Communist Cell that was brought up from CASTRO's Cuba to encircle his once Free soul at the same Andrews Air Force Base that houses Air Force One.
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