By georgia10, about Hillary Clinton's Iraq War vote: For me, the question is one of judgment. Of foresight. Of the ability to accurately weigh both current facts and future possibilities... Because even with the President's ominous speeches, even with Colin Powell wagging vials in the air, and even with the lead weight of all the bad intelligence in 2002, the scales should not have tipped toward invasion. Twenty-three Senators and 133 Congressmen voted against the Iraq War Resolution. They knew that this President could not be trusted with awesome war powers. They knew that a possible invasion would be catastrophic. They knew that pre-emptive war in the Mideast would have disastrous consequences... Clinton's weighed the evidence (as it was presented to her), but she simply did not give enough weight to the clear and disastrous consequences of an invasion of Iraq. That conclusion, that flawed analysis, is Clinton's mistake.

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