Look to W, not Hil, for 'sorry'

[Alamom]

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.

[ForFuxakes]

1. Is it really so hard

For her to be humble an admit a mistake. How many average americans knew it was wrong from the get go, but b/c she played the odds and got caught, she now expects "W" to go first...yeah right, fat chance. At least Edwards has the decency to say..."I was wrong". You might think that Hillary has learned from her hubby's mistakes (only appologized after he got caught. (BTW, i could care less about what he did, just sayin it might have turned out differently)). I for one am sick and tired of politicians pretending that they are above a simple apology. Americans are a forgiving bunch, but for her to align herself with Bush and be so damn defiant makes me sick!

[acmavm]

2. She collaborated. She enabled. She still is.

[helderheid]

4. An enabler is one thing.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Mike, you moran, you just do't get it.

How can she say that THEY were wrong, if she doesn't admit to being wrong herself?

Whatever her reasons for supporting the IWR, refusing to acknowledge it was a mistake is saying "Nobody could have predicted that the president would take it as an authorization to attack"; "No one could have predicted that the we would find the intelligence to be so wrong"; "No one could imagine that the president would not take it back to the UN".

Those were all predicted - just ignored, by her.

Edwards isn't using his apology as a way of getting a one-up on Clinton; he's using it as a club to beat the administration. He's saying, "I gave them the benefit of the doubt, and they betrayed my trust. I will not do that again."

By not apologising, Clinton is saying, well, I don't know what the hell she is saying. That the administration was right?