Could Hillary's Iraq War Vote Cost Her The Nomination Again?

MSNBC contributor - that'll really give him a boost.

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Could Hillary's Iraq War Vote Cost Her The Nomination Again?

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Not a chance. Other issues might though.

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Could Hillary's Iraq War Vote Cost Her The Nomination Again?

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Nope.

Age and her health is becoming a huge factor, especially her health.

IF she runs, the left will be fawning all over her, tellings us how she is the 'smartest' woman in the world.

The left doesn't really care about her vote on Eye-rack. They hated Bush with a purple passion(and still do).

Look at the current dufus in the WH. He said he was gonna shut down Gitmo ASAP. Well, its still open. I doubt it will ever be shut-down.

It was all smoke and mirrors from the left.
It always is. Nothin has changed with them.

It was never about Iraq, it was about a man with an R behind his name in the WH.

Blee-dat.

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The left doesn't really care about her vote on Eye-rack.

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If this were true, Obama's campaign would have never gotten traction, but the base would have already had their anti-war hero. You right-wingers seem unable to comprehend how big an issue Iraq was in the Democratic primaries, but FYI, it was at least as big as abortion is in the Republican primaries.

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In the 2008 Democratic primary, Iraq, more than the economy, was the paramount issue that framed the contest and sealed the respective fates of the two major candidates vying for the nomination: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton tried everything to distance herself from the affirmative vote she cast for the Iraq War Resolution of 2002, a resolution that gave President Bush carte blanche in determining when and how to remove the regime in Baghdad. The measure passed both Houses of Congress with strong bipartisan support and put members of Congress on the record less than a month before contentious off-year elections were to take place.

The Democratic primary electorate, however endeared it was to Clinton on other issues, was incredulous at best of Clinton’s election year conversion into an anti-Iraq War crusader. Clinton lost the nomination because of her vote to give President Bush the authorization to use force in Iraq. Obama won the nomination, and subsequently the presidency, largely because of that same vote. The issue that Schweitzer raised deserves to be examined and debated just as rigorously in 2016 as it was in 2008, given that the war, which presently isn’t even close to concluding, resulted in the deaths of more than four thousand U.S. service members, cost over a trillion dollars, exacerbated the volatility of a crucial region for U.S. national interests, gave impetus to Iranian hegemony, introduced Al Qaeda, suicide terrorism, Zarqawism, and sectarian violence in Iraq, eroded American credibility in the world, and led to pervasive, chronic, and ultimately tragic misfortune for the Iraqi populace.

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Maybe it could be the fact that there is not a woman on earth that is capable of being the leader of the free world and would never be taken seriously on a global scene.

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I hate Hilary and I hope she never becomes president but you're talking out of your arse here big time.

Who's to say there isn't an American margaret thatcher popping up in our future?

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For that matter, how is Ogump's Y chromosome working for us right now?

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I can assure you my vote had zero to do with him being in the White House today. I'm merely saying that the majority of the rest of the world does not respect women enough to consider them to be a threat. The world is not ready for a female POTUS. We may as well mail it all in if that occurs at this particular point in time.

God forbid something happen to both Obama and Biden in the next three years.

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I can assure you my vote had zero to do with him being in the White House today. I'm merely saying that the majority of the rest of the world does not respect women enough to consider them to be a threat. The world is not ready for a female POTUS. We may as well mail it all in if that occurs at this particular point in time.

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Why do you think so many other countries have elected world leaders as their head of state?

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God forbid something happen to both Obama and Biden in the next three years.

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That would mean that John Boehner would become President.

They owe her for saving Bill's presidency.

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the logic of voting for Obama because he didn't make Clinton's Iraq vote is just stupid.

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I kige this.

Ogump was a nobody state senator back then. Opposing the war was a safe position to take. If anything at all goes wrong you can come back later and say "I told you so". If it becomes the first war in history where everything goes perfectly, your comments can disappear down the memory hole.

Fact is, the Iraq war was a success. We deposed Saddam and allowed the Iraqis to choose their own leaders. Those were major objectives of the operation. You can certainly argue that it wasn't worth the price in blood and treasure, but that's a different question.

Don't forget Benghazi.

Or, the Reset Button.

Or, the FACT that Bill and Hill pumped Obamacare more effectively than Obama.

Finally, and this is not a sexist comment, she is one tired old woman.