Or is she just that good?
In case you missed the memo, Sen. Hillary Clinton did a brilliant job of emailing people yesterday with the facts — as opposed to the spin — on Bush’s call for Congressional support of disarming Saddem Hussein way back when.
Of course, now we refer to this as “Quagmire in Iraq.” But Hillary still remembers why she voted to give the president the authority to make decisions in 2002.
I voted…on the basis of the evidence presented by the Administration, assurances they gave that they would first seek to resolve the issue of weapons of mass destruction peacefully through United Nations sponsored inspections, and the argument that the resolution was needed because Saddam Hussein never did anything to comply with his obligations that he was not forced to do.
Their assurances turned out to be empty ones, as the Administration refused repeated requests from the U.N. inspectors to finish their work. And the “evidence” of weapons of mass destruction and links to al Qaeda turned out to be false.
Before I voted in 2002, the Administration publicly and privately assured me that they intended to use their authority to build international support in order to get the U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq, as articulated by the President in his Cincinnati speech on October 7th, 2002. As I said in my October 2002 floor statement, I took “the President at his word that he will try hard to pass a U.N. resolution and will seek to avoid war, if at all possible.”
Instead, the Bush Administration short-circuited the U.N. inspectors – the last line of defense against the possibility that our intelligence was false. The Administration also abandoned securing a larger international coalition, alienating many of those who had joined us in Afghanistan…
I take responsibility for my vote, and I, along with a majority of Americans, expect the President and his Administration to take responsibility for the false assurances, faulty evidence and mismanagement of the war.
Hillary’s email went out a full day before Bush’s speech but in it she correctly anticipates both the speech’s contents and its themes.
After all, if ever there was someone who could stand in front of a meticulously staged backdrop before a crowd of hand-selected supporters and spout absolute inanities with an air of bluster and arrogance, that man is George W. Bush.
It is time for the President to stop serving up platitudes and present us with a plan for finishing this war with success and honor — not a rigid timetable that terrorists can exploit, but a public plan for winning and concluding the war. And it is past time for the President, Vice President, or anyone else associated with them to stop impugning the patriotism of their critics.
You go girl.
- Topic: News & Comment
- Topics: Elections, Iraq, Worst President Ever
Better late than never I guess, but I’m with Russ Feingold. He wasn’t fooled. Maybe Joe Lieberman was trusted with a copy of Busolini’s speech and passed it on to Hillary?
Why would she need to have the speech leaked to her? Bush spouted out the same speech as he has done in previous speeches. Bush is an amazing disgrace.
moonsha’s comment is right on. In addition, Bush and Rumsfeld both telegraphed the contents of Bush’s speech on Tuesday when they denounced those calling for immediate withdrawal and defended the status quo as necessary to the safety of the US. Anyone with half a brain could have predicted what Bush would say today.
I think it’s a lame defense that democrats expected him to go the U.N. route first, and only to war as a last resort. If they thought the threat wasn’t imminent enough so as to have time for UN inspections, then there was no need to authorize war power prematurely. It’s not as though anyone needed authorization to have the inspectors go in. Dems in Congress deserve to be sprayed with white phosphorous. The Bush administration deserves to be tortured for four years like all those they have stowed away in the gulags, and then forced to watch their kids and grandkids be sprayed with white phosphorous.
Of course, with all of them corraled that way, there’d be no one left willing or malicious enough to carry out those sorts of punishments.
Bush go to Crawford on a long vacation. People don’t believe a word you say.
R U serious, “you go girl” Hill the shrill is also an embarrassment, what is her excuse? She is intelligent, but tends to cater to the special interests as often as most of the Repugs. She will never get THE nomitation without having some convictions. Being slightly better than those bastards is not good enough! What did she learn from Bill? Why is she selling out?
Bush is obviously mentally ill, and as is the case with most psychotics, he cannot recognize the fact that he is tail-spinning out of control. As far as his “divine purpose” to demonocratize Iraq, he may as well stand on a street corner in Detroit, waving a Bible, and declaring he’s Jesus. W has some major mental problems and he proves that Freud was right on at least one issue: “IT’S THE MOTHER!” He definitely has an Oedipus complex to the major degree, having to compete with Daddyo for mommy’s love. Bring Karl Rove into the picture, with his drooling lust for the “old witch,” and you’ve got one nasty love quadruple. Cocktails at eight, at Motel 8, Karl, and don’t forget to bring your rubbers!
Gotta go… FBI just delivered my toxic pizza.
What a bunch of losers!!!
You need to add Commondreams.org and Truthout.com to your list. They are incredible resources.
I think it’s Hillary’s weak way of bending to what her New Yorkers want. We now have a Green running against her. The Repub really didn’t have a chance. So Hillary went right for 2008. Now she actually has an anti-war opponent. I think she is trying to lean back home some. BUT it’s making her wish-washy. Even has me thinking Green. And I am a Clinton lover. But I will make sure one of them wins.
Definately prefer Hillary not to run in 2008.
Here are 22 members of the senate who would make better Presidentail candidates. Sadly 22, the best has been taken from us.
Question: On the Joint Resolution (H.J.Res. 114 )
NAYs —23
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chafee (R-RI)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (D-FL)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wellstone (D-MN)
Wyden (D-OR)
I’m not crazy about Hilary myself, but if you Democrats nominate her in 2008, you should go all otu for her. There aer a lot of negative things that can be said about the Clintons, but THEY KNOW HOW TO WIN.
The problem with running Hilly for prez is the 35% that still believe in W. I’d vote for her, but there’s a strong know nothing group that would not.
George is dangerous right now, in the way that a wounded animal is dangerous. He is free to do anything. I want to be woken in 2008.