In her upcoming book, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton completely admits that she made a mistake by voting for the Iraq War in 2002. presstv.ir/detail/2014/06/07/365901/hillary-clinton-my-iraq-war-vote-wrong In 2008 on Meet the Press, Hillary Clinton defended her 2002 vote for the Iraq war resolution, saying that she thought it was a vote to put inspectors back in so Saddam Hussein could not go unchecked. She insisted that she and others were told by the White House personally that this was the purpose of the resolution, and cited President Bushs assurances to defend her position. Moderator Tim Russert pointed out that the title of the resolution was the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. Clinton responded saying, We can have this Jesuitical argument about what exactly was meant. But when Chuck Hagel, who helped to draft the resolution said, It was not a vote for war, What I was told directly by the White House in response to my question, If you are given this authority, will you put the inspectors in and permit them to finish their job, I was told thats exactly what we intended to do. huffingtonpost/2008/01/13/hillary-clinton-defends-2_n_81261.html Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her strongest language yet about her 2002 Senate vote to authorize military action in Iraq, writes in her forthcoming memoir that I still got it wrong, CBS News reported Thursday afternoon. In Hard Choices, Clinton, a former secretary of state and former U.S. senator who is exploring a 2016 presidential campaign, writes: [M]any Senators came to wish they had voted against the resolution. I was one of them. As the war dragged on, with every letter I sent to a family in New York who had lost a son or daughter, a father or mother, my mistake become (sic) more painful. Clinton continues, I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasnt alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple. washingtonpost/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/05/hillary-clinton-on-iraq-vote-i-still-got-it-wrong-plain-and-simple/
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