2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary is PROGRESSIVE, MEGA-QUALIFIED, BRILLIANT, and WILL MOST LIKELY be the Dem nominee. [View all]Martin Eden
(14,951 posts)That covers a lot that should be unacceptable to Democratic voters, not the least of which is her inexcusable vote for war in Iraq and her continued hawkish foreign policy.
In October 2002 the American people desperately needed strong Democratic leaders to stand up, speak truth to power, dispel the LIES, and make every effort to prevent the most costly, disastrous, tragic foreign policy blunder in US history.
Slightly more than half the Democrats in Congress voted against the IWR.
Senator Clinton not only voted for the neocon war of choice, she stood up and vocally supported it.
By all indications, she's still a war hawk.
Hillary Clinton lost my vote, and she should have lost yours too -- not only for her actual record, but for what she is likely to do if elected president.
We cannot afford the next war that HRC will get us mired in or escalation of the current quagmires from which we must extricate ourselves.
Nearly everything of value that needs to be accomplished for the American people has been and will continue to be sacrificed in on the altar of spending for the Military Industrial Complex.
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