Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Not Gaining Morty's Confidence

From January, 2006:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of playing down the threat of a nuclear Iran and called for swift action at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Iranian government.

The senator's statements, in which she said the administration should make it clear that all options remain on the table for dealing with the Iranians, came during a speech about the Middle East on Wednesday night at Princeton University. She criticized the White House for turning the problem over to European nations and said Iran must never be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons.

"I believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations," Clinton said. "I don't believe you face threats like Iran or North Korea by outsourcing it to others and standing on the sidelines."

And then add this more recent vote (link):

She is the only US senator of those seeking the Democratic presidential nomination who voted in September for a resolution declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group. Her rivals have been pressing the case that the resolution encouraged the Bush administration to move toward military action -- and have been pointing out that Clinton also voted to authorize the war in Iraq, where weapons of mass destruction -- the ostensible reason for the invasion -- were never found.





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