Hillary Wants A New Authorization Vote On The Iraq War
She says it’s because the current authorization for war is “outdated” because it mentions Saddam Hussein and stuff (the fact that leaving Iraq a stable democracy is the culmination of a mission that started with deposing Saddam apparently eluding her), but mostly I think she just wants to shore up her anti-war cred by being able to say that she voted against the war after she voted for it.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton is asking her fellow senators to sign on to her and Sen. Robert Byrd’s plan for an Iraq war vote do-over.
In a letter to all 98 other senators provided to the Daily News yesterday, Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Byrd (D-W.Va.) say Congress should haul President Bush back for a new war vote when the Senate debates the 2008 military spending bill in the next few weeks.
The letter, sent Friday, argues that the 2002 vote for the war, which Clinton backed, is hopelessly out of date.
“That authorization, which references the government of Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, is no longer relevant,” they say.
With the Democrats having only a slim majority in Congress, and the President likely to veto any effort to end the war, Hillary’s gambit here doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell. Which is why I think it’s more about just letting 2008 candidates like herself get on record with an anti-war vote than anything else.
Like most of the Democrats’ efforts on Iraq, this is more about enhancing the Democrats’ political positions than sound foreign policy.
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