Comment by PowderedToastMann on 10/10/2018 at 18:39 UTC

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View submission: Hillary Clinton: You 'cannot be civil' with Republicans, Democrats need to be 'tougher'

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That isn't true.[1] She's admitted it was a mistake and not because she believed the wmd lies. I still think it was a political vote, though.

1: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/02/hillary_clinton_told_the_truth_about_her_iraq_war_vote.html

Clinton acknowledged, as she has on previous occasions, that she’d made a mistake. But she also offered an explanation for her vote, something she has rarely done in the past. President Bush, she told the audience, had made a “very explicit appeal” that “getting this vote would be a strong piece of leverage in order to finish the inspections.”

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Comment by anonymous_opinions at 10/10/2018 at 18:49 UTC

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I found being a progressive liberal very hard during that era.

Comment by shinyhappypanda at 10/10/2018 at 20:31 UTC

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She admitted it was a mistake 14 years later. By that point it would have been just about political suicide as a Democrat to say that she stood by her vote.

Comment by [deleted] at 10/10/2018 at 19:12 UTC

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