The Nation: Hillary Still Doesn't Get It on Iraq
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24294-hillary-still-doesnt-get-it-on-iraq
The unfortunate re-eruption of warfare in Iraq will lead to many more questions for Hillary Clinton about her past support for the wara rather unfortunate thing from her point of view, given the issue was a key reason for her 2008 Democratic presidential primary loss.
Her answer to one such question at a forum in Toronto reveals Clinton still has serious trouble talking about the war in a language recognized by those who opposed itand there are a great many.
According to Alex Seitz-Wald of National Journal, this is what Clinton said at an event sponsored by the Toronto Region Board of Trade:
That statement echoes some of the worst impulses of the Bush administration, which were to frame supporting the war publicly as a matter of supporting the troops.
One of the central animating concerns of the anti-war movementfrom the Cindy Sheehan encampment to a young Senator named Barack Obamas describing soldiers from Illinois who had been badly maimed by battlewas for the thousands of US troops dying, and the thousands more being injured, in what was ultimately a needless war. When George W. Bush would bash war opponents as people who didnt support the troops, the anti-war refrain was: thats exactly what were doing. Hillary perhaps does not accept that argumentor if she does, its hard to tell.