2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis deserves a post of its own.
Maybe now we have an answer-back that will stop Sanders from his annoying dependence on a 12 year old recanted vote. From an op ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Obviously, somewhere along the way Sanders changed his mind about regime change in Iraq. Clinton, too, in retrospect says voting for the Iraq war was a mistake. But instead of fighting the last war, she is ready with a plan.
DemocracyDirect
(708 posts)... is the same thing as supporting a war to create a power vacuum.
Leading to ISIS.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)NOTHING will make Hillary's IWR vote go away.
She was insistent that it was the hardest decision she's ever had to make, she trusted Shrub to do the right thing, and she parroted ALL of the neocon lies fed to us as reasons to bomb the shit out of Iraq. As late as 2008, Hillary defended her vote, saying that we gave the gift of democracy to Iraq.
So yeah, whatever. Keep grasping.
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Was a brutal dictator and most people wanted his regime overthrown. Bernie didn't want to start a never ending war that would destabilize the whole of the Middle East. Nuance is important.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)raping and killing his own people in Libya any more, is it?
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts).
The paper purchased to increase regional power and drive political goals.
The same empire that is preventing the Democratic voter records from being released to his son's challenger, Alex Law.
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PufPuf23
(8,791 posts)ky_dem
(86 posts)Once a vote is made it's made - the best someone can do is say they were mistaken at the time and frequently that is too little too late as actions do have consequences
LAS14
(13,783 posts)If you'll supply it, I'll edit the post.
Thanks,
LAS
morningfog
(18,115 posts)"Political regret" when her vote for an unsupported, illegal war led to a million deaths and didn't help her politically as she thought at the time it would.
LAS14
(13,783 posts).. I'm looking for is a verb that would say "came to see that it was a mistake." How can you possibly claim to know otherwise???
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)And then he voted FOR the bill. Crime Bill 1994
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)(As Bernie asked at the Apollo of Hillary's quote of "super predator.)