By Amy Goodman
Hillary Clinton is a once and future warrior. Campaign events in New Hampshire suggest the majority antiwar electorate has problems with her vote for the Iraq war and with her position on Iran.
On Feb. 10, New Hampshire resident Roger Tilton asked Sen. Clinton at a town hall meeting: “I want to know if right here, right now, once and for all and without nuance, you can say that war authorization was a mistake.”
Clinton responded: “Well, I have said, and I will repeat it, that knowing what I know now, I never would have voted for it. ... The mistakes were made by this president who misled this country and this Congress into a war that should not have been waged.”
A week later, in Dover, N.H., she dug in:
“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from. But for me, the most important thing now is trying to end this war.”
Her tough talk to antiwar voters is reminiscent of President Bush’s taunt to the Iraqi insurgents: “Bring them on.”
People’s concerns about Clinton’s Iraq war vote is of more than historical interest. History has a frightening way of repeating itself. Drop the “q,” add an “n.” Iran.
New Hampshire Peace Action Director Anne Miller asked Clinton about her recent comments to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Clinton had told the AIPAC: “We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons. And in dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table.”
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070222_clinton_to_anti_war_voters_bring_it_on/==================================
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