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In reply to the discussion: DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! [View all]pnwmom
(109,054 posts)which was a mistake, not an act of evil on her part.
And the Iraq war resolution that she voted for contained conditions that should have prevented Bush from beginning the war, except he chose to ignore them. The conditions included the requirement that weapons of mass destruction be found - but they never were. Bush went ahead anyway.
If Hillary and the Dems hadn't voted to approve the IWR in the fall, with the conditions, then the Rethugs would have approved a blank check for Bush in January. As it turned out, Bush ignored the conditions, but that isn't something any of the Dems knew would happen.
In the end, her vote didn't make a bit of difference in the war -- Bush would have gone forward with or without it. She only hurt herself and her political standing by deciding to trust those people.