Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the lone Republican senator to vote against the Iraq war, calls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton one of the "Democratic Bush enablers" who failed to stand up to the president.
In a new book, Chafee, who is backing Clinton rival Sen. Barack Obama, skewers Clinton and other Democratic White House hopefuls who said they were duped by Bush into voting for the war.
"Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill," Chafee writes. "They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment, in my view."
Chafee says top Democrats put their political ambitions first in the fall of 2002.
"They were afraid that Republicans would label them soft in the post-September 11 world, and when they acted on that political self-interest, they helped the president send thousands of Americans and uncounted innocent Iraqis to their doom," he writes.
Finally!
Finally somebody says what every intelligent person already knows about why Hillary and other Senators voted to send our troops to die in Iraq.
It was all politics. It was all a political maneuver to insure that she would not face defeat in her next Senatorial election.
She allowed George Bush to send Americans to die so that she could keep her job and then run for President.
The question that must be asked is how many American soldier lives is the Hillary Clinton Presidency worth?
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