http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/499486p-421108c.html 02/21/07
Mike Lupica
"Now that Sen. Hillary Clinton is running for President there is this idea she is supposed to apologize because she ran with the crowd in 2002 and voted for George Bush's war in Iraq. "
John Edwards goes after Clinton on this in a big way, Edwards mostly saying he was wrong now with his own vote to authorize the war as a way of getting some kind of early advantage on her.
Sen. Barack Obama goes after her, too, reminding everybody he was against the war in '02 as a state senator from Illinois, which was somewhat like voicing opposition from the bleachers at Wrigley Field.
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She should say she will apologize right after Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the fired secretary of defense, do the same.Hillary Clinton should apologize for her war vote when this President apologizes for anything, for all the dead and all the wounded, for all the reasons he gave and is still giving for this war. Hillary Clinton can admit she was wrong right after Gen. Colin Powell admits he was wrong to throw in with Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld on this war, and the trumped-up reasons for entering into it, in the first place.
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Clinton was wrong once, the way Edwards was wrong, and Sen. Joe Biden, and Sen. Christopher Dodd. This administration, on the other hand, has been wrong for years, from the time this President first started beating the drums for this war on the first anniversary of Sept. 11.
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Not Hillary Clinton's war. Theirs. It is theirs. She didn't make the world more dangerous than it already was. They did. You want an apology? They go first.