Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hillary Clinton's 2003 Speech


In 2003, Senator Hillary Clinton gave a speech to an anti-war group called Code Pink. In this speech she talked about the soon-to-be Iraq War and how she supported it. Why would anyone try to convince a group that is militant against any kind of war to support a war beats me. I'm thinking they thought she would have done a different speech and that's why she was invited to speak. I'm guessing. If you do not want to watch the eight minute video of the speech you can read her speech below:

There is a very easy way to prevent anyone from being put into harm's way and that is for Saddam Hussein to disarm. And I have absolutely no belief that he will. I have to say that this is something that I have followed for more than a decade. If he is serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming. I ended up voting for the resolution after carefully reviewing the information and intelligence that I had available, talking to people whose opinions I trusted, trying to discount political or other factors that I didn't believe should be in any way a part of this decision. I would love to agree with you, but I can't based on my own understanding and assessment of the situation. With respect to whose responsibility it is to disarm Saddam Hussein, I just do not believe that, given the attitudes of many people in the world community today, that there would be a willingness to take on very difficult problems were it not the United States leadership, and I'm talking specifically about what had to be done in Bosnia and Kosovo, where my husband could not get a Security Council resolution to save the Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing, and we did it alone as the United States, and we had to do it alone. And so I see it somewhat differently. So forgive me for my experience and perspective.

I wonder if the drive-by-cloned-media is going to show this speech? Naw. Now of course Hillary is against the war. Then again in 2003 she was not running for president. Notice what I highlighted in bold. She said she "carefully reviewed the information..." about going to war. That's interesting because now she is blaming President Bush for tricking her about the war. That begs the question. How can a so-called simpleton like Bush trick the world's smartest woman? Hmmm. And Hillary Clinton wants to be president?

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