Hillary Clinton : "We Can Have this Jesuitical Argument about what exactly was meant", Jan 13, 2008

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The title of the act was the authorization for use of military force against Iraq's resolution. But, you know, Tim, that was exactly what would happen if we weren't successful with the diplomacy, and if we weren't successful in persuading Hussein to do something. And let me just add here that when we were moving toward the preemptive war that George Bush decided to wage, the inspectors were in Iraq. We were getting information, finally, that would give us a basis for knowing, I believe, if the inspectors had been allowed to do their work. We would have learned that what Saddam Hussein had constructed was a sure rate. It put a very well brought him down by his own people. Now we can sit here and argue about 2002, or we can say what has happened since and what needs to happen going forward in the future. And I think that you have two different storylines here. You have Senator Obama's storyline, the speech he gave in 02 to his credit, which then was not followed up on by 03. It was off his website by 04. He was saying he didn't know how he would vote, and that he basically agreed with George Bush on the conduct of the war. There were others him who voted against it, spoke out against it, and never wavered over that period of time. Did you vote for all the funny for the war? I did. I never, I'm not promising my campaign on something different. It's all six, where it was against the timetable. But I did what I, my principal concern has always been doing what I thought was best for our country, and what I thought was best for our troops. I'm not here saying anything different than that. I'm not giving you a storyline that does not hold up under the facts and the times that we read. Did he have better judgment in October of 2002? You know, look, judgment is not a single snapshot. Judgment is what you do across the course of your life and career. A whole career, is it very important? Well, you know, Tim, we can have this geosuitical argument about what exactly was meant.