Vogue Endorses Hillary Clinton for President of the United States

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@d_r

I don’t disagree with this, but her one vote (in a strong supermajority) didn’t have the effect, the huge majority did, and many people who were not hawks voted Aye because they thought they were looking at compelling evidence of Iraqi aggression. The fact that the evidence was cooked up by Bush and Blair was pretty cleverly masked (especially by using Colin Powell the disgraceful way they did), and while it is easy to look back and say it was a bad vote, it was also a vote that people of integrity and good intention can have made. (That shouldn’t detract from Sanders’ principled vote on the question, of course.)

I have more of a problem with the vote because congress wasn’t questioning the evidence enough. The sinking feeling started for me with them singing “God Bless America” on live TV. The majority then all fell in line to show they were “doing something” in response. I don’t doubt there was a disconnect between CIA and congress as well, but that’s not an excuse.