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Avalux

(35,015 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:29 AM Apr 2016

Hillary's IWR Senate floor speech and subsequent vote disqualify her.

How can anyone be confident she will make the right decisions as CIC? She went to Bush and asked for billions in federal aid for NY after 9/11, and then she helped him out by giving him the authority to blow the shit out of Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands.

It wasn't just the vote though. During Hillary's speech, she used the exact same talking points as the neocons, tying Saddam Hussein to 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction. This was at a time when most of us here knew all of that was a lie. Hillary knew it too, but she chose to vote YEA for political reasons, not for the good of all; certainly not for the good of the Iraqi people who ended up dead after "Shock and Awe".

I've thought Hillary as not qualified for a long time now. This speech is probably the biggest reason for me.

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Hillary's IWR Senate floor speech and subsequent vote disqualify her. (Original Post) Avalux Apr 2016 OP
Kickin' Faux pas Apr 2016 #1
Either she was lying here or... SHRED Apr 2016 #2
 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
2. Either she was lying here or...
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:58 AM
Apr 2016

...she really believed it.

Either way is not good considering with just minimal searching on the internet and reading up on Iraq we soon realized these were lies. Saddam was not tied to 9/11 nor did he have WMD nor was he a threat to the USA.

How did millions of us know this back then yet she didn't?

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