Hillary Clinton Iraq War Speech

Hillary Clinton's Iraq war speech on the Senate floor in October 2002.Ever since she started running for president, Hillary Clinton has tried to preserve some wriggle room in promising to "end the Iraq war." At first, she was hesitant to provide any kind of timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. Then she said that she would start withdrawing troops within 60 days of becoming president. Under pressure from her Democratic party rivals, she eventually started talking about withdrawing one to two brigades per month, bringing all combat troops out of the country by the end of 2009. But she usually accompanied such promises with qualifiers like "I hope" and "may withdraw."

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why did you stop after 10 minutes? you left out where she said: "I'll take the President at his word that he'll try hard to pass a UN resolution and seek to avoid war, if at all possible."

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"I believe international support and legitimacy are crucial."

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"A vote for it is not a vote to rush to war; it is a vote that puts awesome responsibility in the hands of our President and we say to him - use these powers wisely and as a last resort." -- Hillary Clinton's Floor Speech

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Bill Clinton's Legacy of Racism! In 1989, then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued as one of three top Arkansas officials responsible for the intimidation of black voters in his state as part of a legal action brought under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. A year earlier the U.S. Supreme court ruled that Clinton had wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative in favor of a white Democrat. In the 1989 case, "the evidence at the trial was indeed overwhelming that the...CONTINUES...

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Voting Rights Act had been violated," reported the Arkansas Gazette on Dec.6, 1989.(The paper later became the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.)"Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of monolithic voting along racial lines,intimidation of black voters and candidates,other official acts that made voting harder for blacks,"the Gazette said. approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988,the Washington Times revealed in 1999. "The Arkansas plan..

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gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates,"the Times said."A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional," the paper reported."A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice - known as the 'criminal apprehension program' the next year." A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional,".A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice.

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WOMENS RIGHTS? HILLARY'S A SELLOUT!

Sen. Clinton accepts donations from troubled firm

Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 3:50 PM PT

Filed Under: Politics

By Lisa Myers and Jim Popkin, NBC News

Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.

CNN, WHY DO YOU ALLOW HILLARY TO FLY UNDER THE RADAR?

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On Tape, Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden!

During a February 2002 speech,Clinton explained that he turned down an offer from Sudan for bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., saying,"At the time,1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him." But that wasn't exactly true. By 1996, the 9/11 mastermind had already been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by prosecutors in New York.