16 April 2007

"I was briefed..." - Why I won't vote for Hillary Clinton


I can't think of anything a Senator might vote on more serious than a war. I would expect a Senator to read, at least once, an intelligence report sent over from the executive to lay out the case for invading another country. I know if I was a Senator, I would do some serious reading on the subject before I made up my mind. Best not to leap into these things uninformed. Or for reasons that don't justify sacrificing the lives of men, women and children whose only crime is living in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Judging from the (non)answer Sen. Clinton gave to a question posed to her at a campaign stop in NH, she doesn't feel the same...

"A woman who had traveled from New York asked Sen. Clinton if she had read the report given to her in 2002 on intelligence and the Iraq war.
Clinton said she had been briefed on the report, and the woman screamed back, "Did you read it?!" Notably uncomfortable, the Senator repeated that she had been briefed. This exchange went back and forth about three times."

Clearly, Senator Clinton avoided answering this question honestly. The only answer that she would need to avoid would be "No." A "Yes" would not be a problem for her. She is hiding the fact that she didn't do her homework before she voted to hand BushWarInc. a blank check on invading Iraq. I don't know what information she based her vote on, but it lacks the due diligence I expect from a Senator...or a President.

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