"Another Wall Street Dem is running for pres.Once again we must choose btn acquiescence & rebellion"

[Rilgin]

111. Ok We came down to it

So you are bashing him not his post.

I dont know anything about his history nor is it relevant as to his current article.

The author may very well have been wrong about every single thing he has ever said before this. I either agree with his current article which lists the problems which some of us have with HRC's candidacy or I don't. More to the point, this is about HRC not the author of the article. Bashing the author of this article will not change the substance of his article which lists reason HRC as a candidate makes some people uncomfortable and gives some other opinions.

Further, as you are probably would want to agree with, being wrong does not seem to be fatal. Again, HRC was clearly wrong about the Iraq war. You would not have it be fatal to her candidacy for president.

I think she is a mixed bad, right and wrong but mostly politically safe. Her war votes turned out wrong. However, I do not think the real meaning of her IRAQ war vote was about her being wrong. I think she actually knew that Bush was going to war and the reasons were meaningless. I think her votes and speeches at the time were abouth er being political expedient.

As things turned out she made a bad judgement about both the policy and political expediency because it became clear over history how wrong the Iraq war was and how weak the claims of weapons of mass destruction were.

I knew about the weapons inspectors in iraq and the disputes about aluminum tubes at the time. I knew about all the problems with the intelligence presented as fact at the time. The CIA head of counter intelligence for Europe (Tyler Drumheller) has told us he reported that the sources used by the Bush administration were clearly corrupt. The weapons inspectors were telling us Iraq was cooperating and they were not finding weapons.

I believe she generally knew the Iraq war was being sold to us and made a political judgement to support it which turned out wrong. I think she probably believed it would be a successful foreign excursion and reveal Saddam to be a bad guy rather than reveal that the American people had been manipulated. I do not think she is a war monger per se. I think she is a status quo candidate who has made bad judgments that make her the wrong candidate for now.