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Related: About this forumVideo: Lincoln Chafee needles Clinton - Iraq war vote 'created all the problems'
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Tuesday he's seeking the Democratic nomination to keep the question of the Iraq War alive, one which implicitly haunts Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Democrats need to point out that the problems with ISIS and other instability in the Middle East started with the Iraq War and should not be afraid to tag Republicans on the issue, Chafee, who was a senator at that time of the vote in 2002, said during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast in Washington.
"They were the ones who invaded Iraq and created all the problems," said Chafee, who was a Republican at the time and the only Republican senator to vote against the war. "Just politically speaking, it's important for the Democrat Party to say that's a Republican mistake that we now have to fix."
Clinton voted in favor of the Iraq War in 2002, as did the 2004 Democratic nominee then-Sen. John Kerry. At the time, the war was very popular, but public opinion shifted greatly between then and 2006. Clinton has said since then that the Iraq vote was a mistake
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Democrats need to point out that the problems with ISIS and other instability in the Middle East started with the Iraq War and should not be afraid to tag Republicans on the issue, Chafee, who was a senator at that time of the vote in 2002, said during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast in Washington.
"They were the ones who invaded Iraq and created all the problems," said Chafee, who was a Republican at the time and the only Republican senator to vote against the war. "Just politically speaking, it's important for the Democrat Party to say that's a Republican mistake that we now have to fix."
Clinton voted in favor of the Iraq War in 2002, as did the 2004 Democratic nominee then-Sen. John Kerry. At the time, the war was very popular, but public opinion shifted greatly between then and 2006. Clinton has said since then that the Iraq vote was a mistake
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politics/lincoln-chafee-iraq-war-comments-christian-science-monitor/
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Video: Lincoln Chafee needles Clinton - Iraq war vote 'created all the problems' (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Jul 2015
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Chafee: "I did my homework, I looked carefully to see if there were weapons of mass destruction"
Cheese Sandwich
Jul 2015
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Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)1. Chafee: "I did my homework, I looked carefully to see if there were weapons of mass destruction"
The war itself has not been much of an issue during the 2016 primaries, so far, but Chafee said voters need to know that much of the trouble in the Middle East began with this entry into another "endless quagmire" reminiscent of the Vietnam War.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)2. investigate a vote and then assess if it'd be good or bad? has he LOST it?
what about the well-being of big business, cowardly going along with the GOP-defined flow, and the brainless warmongering that honestly thinks this is an act of self-defense that'll be over by December 2003?
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)3. I will be DELIGHTED to vote against her again for that vote.