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This is what you'd probably say...
1. SHE backed the Iraq War
2. She BACKED the Iraq War
3. She backed THEIraq War
4. She backed the IRAQ War
5. She backed the Iraq WAR
See, your OP is just another invitation to another 300+ post thread on the Iraq war and Hillary not kissing your ass and apologizing for it. Plenty of those threads already to play in.
Wouldn't matter how I answered the question, your response would be peppered with the same old same old repeated a million times already. It becomes tedious after a while.
Because she has a plan, approved by the world's leading economists, to provide free health care to every American and their pets.
So what? SHE backed the Iraq War
Because she has a plan to eliminate poverty in just 3 months. Experts say it is wonderful!
So what? She BACKED the Iraq War
Because she will fund research literally guaranteed to cure cancer aids, impotence, prevent pregnancy, and make turn water to wine - all in just one pill!!
SO WHAT!!! SHE BACKED THE IRAQ WAR AND SHE WON'T KISS MY ASS AND APOLOGIZE!!!
...and on and on and on and on....
But here are 5 reasons I support Hillary Clinton as my second choice...
White House Experience
In the White House, Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and child care,
to increase funding for breast cancer research, and to help veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who
had too often been ignored in the past. She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy
and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to
adoption more quickly. Thanks in part to her efforts, the number of children who have moved out of foster
care into adoption has increased dramatically. She was instrumental in designing and championing the State
Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided millions of children with health insurance. (from bartcop)
Senate Experience
She battled the big drug companies to force them to test their drugs for children and to make sure all kids
get the immunizations they need through the Vaccines for Children Program. Immunization rates dramatically
improved after the program launched.After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with
her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide
compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line
workers at Ground Zero.She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee,
working to see that America's military has the necessary resources to protect our national security.
She has visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Fort Drum in New York, home of the 10th Mountain
Division and other New York bases, as well as at Walter Reed Military Hospital. She has learned first-hand
the challenges facing American combat forces. Hillary passed legislation to track the health status of our troops
so that conditions like Gulf War Syndrome would no longer be misdiagnosed. She is an original sponsor of
legislation that expanded health benefits to members of the National Guard and Reserves and has been a
strong critic of the Administration's handling of Iraq.
She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage,
because she believes if America's working people don't deserve a raise, neither does Congress. She has
supported a variety of middle-class tax cuts, including marriage penalty relief, property tax relief, and
reduction in the Alternative Minimum Tax, and supports fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go budget rules.
She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the
Renewal Communities program.She worked to strengthen the Children's Health Insurance Program, which
increased coverage for children in low income and working families. She authored legislation that has been
enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from
bioterrorism. She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS
crisis, and is now leading the fight for expanded use of information technology in the health care system to
decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.
Her strong advocacy for children continues in the Senate. Some of Hillary's proudest achievements have
been her work to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the
Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, and her legislation to help schools address environmental hazards.
She has also proposed expanding access to child care. She has passed legislation that will bring more
qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools. AND SHE HAD
THE BALLS TO TELL RUMSFELD TO HIS FACE THAT HE WAS A LOSER (from bartcop)
The Team
Hillary Clinton will almost certainly bring back the key members of the Clinton team that made the 90s the largest economic expansion in history.
The Attitude
I would support Sen. Clinton because she is a fighter.
At a campaign stop in Iowa, someone asked Sen. Clinton what lessons she learned from the Kerry campaign. She answered she’d learned lots of lessons from years of campaigns she’s been involved in, both her own and her husband’s. Overall, she stressed this: “When you’re attacked, you have to deck your opponents.”
This wasn’t so much a jab at Sen. Kerry’s ineffectiveness in countering the Swift Boat claims as it was reminding people of how the Clintons often outmaneuvered their enemies with, in the words of writer Regina Marler, otherworldly skill.
Indeed, Mrs. Clinton echoed these sentiments in a much stronger fashion last week when she stated, “I know what (Newt) Gingrich tells people privately, I know what (Tom) DeLay tells people privately, I know what Karl Rove tells people privately. I’m the one person they are most afraid of. Bill and I have beaten them before and we will again.”
Just last week, Clinton, described as frustrated and animated, confronted presidential rival Sen. John McCain on the Senate floor after he blocked funding for a 9/11 responders' health care program, people familiar with the encounter told CNN.
The Spectrum
Clinton has taken a centrist turn and is open to bi-partisanship for the sake of progress, the mentality the fueled and won the 2006 midterm elections.
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