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Re: The many faces of Hillary
You have got to be a quick, agile liar to have more than one faces and I am afraid Hillary Clinton perfectly suits this explanation. One of the many faces of her manifests itself in her Iraq war record. Many times she asserted that when she voted for the Iraq War Authorization she was doing so to support "more diplomacy," which is not true at all.
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On October 10th 2002, one day before the Iraq-War Authorization vote, Sen. Clinton voted against an amendment to the Iraq-War Resolution sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin that would have required the diplomatic emphasis that Clinton has said she was supporting through her vote on the Iraq War-Authorization. This so called "lost vote" on Iraq, Levin Amendment Number 4862, was designed to curb the rush to war by requiring a two-step process before Congress would actually authorize the use of force. The amendment called, first, for the U.N. to pass a new resolution explicitly approving the use of force against Iraq. It also required the president to return to Congress if his U.N. efforts failed and, in Senator Levin's words, "urge us to authorize a going-it-alone, unilateral resolution."
Also on October 10th, Senator Clinton voted against The Durbin Amendment Number 4865, a less forceful Amendment than the Levin Amendment, but was yet another opportunity for Sen. Clinton to assert her desire for "more diplomacy". Again she refused to take that opportunity.
Senator Clinton actually voted against "more diplomacy" not once, not twice, but three times when she voted for the Iraq War Resolution. Senator Clinton has never fully explained why she voted against the Levin Amendment and the Durbin Amendment to the Iraq-War Resolution. Sen. Clinton has never explained why she says she was actually voting for "more diplomacy", while at the same time she voted against an effort to require diplomacy, and to restrict the President in his rush to war. These "lost votes" have never been raised as an issue in this campaign, but they are very important in the context of judgment and being honest with the American People.
The American people certainly knew that the Iraq War Resolution was paving the way for War, the mainstream media reported that vote as an authorization of force on Iraq, so how an "experienced" Senator such as Hillary Clinton did not know or believe that the resolution she voted for gave the President a carte blanche for war is beyond my comprehension, and it is inexcusable.
BarackObama.com | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: General Tony McPeak: Obama Was Right on the War from the Start
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Who would challenge her in this race of having more than one face? And one other issue is the release of secret White House documents:
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But documents NEWSWEEK obtained under a FOIA request (made to the Archives in Washington, not the Clinton library) suggest that, while publicly saying he wants to ease restrictions on his records, Clinton has given the Archives private instructions to tightly control the disclosure of chunks of his archive. Among the document categories Clinton asked the Archives to "consider for withholding" in a November 2002 letter: "confidential communications" involving foreign-policy issues, "sensitive policy, personal or political" matters and "legal issues and advice" including all matters involving investigations by Congress, the Justice Department and independent counsels (a category that would cover, among other matters, Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky and the pardons of Marc Rich and others). Another restriction: "communications directly between the President and First Lady, and their families, unless routine in nature."
Archives officials say Clinton is within his legal rights. But other Archives records NEWSWEEK reviewed show Clinton's directives, while similar, also go beyond restrictions placed by predecessors Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom put any controls over the papers of their wives. This undoubtedly reflects the larger policy role Hillary played in her husband's administration. Still, some analysts are surprised at the broad range of documents Clinton asked the Archives to withhold. "It does sound pretty expansive. You start to wonder what's not included," says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group suing the Clinton library for failing to respond to its FOIA requests, is struck by the former president's restriction on records relating to his and his wife's families. That, he says, blocks disclosure of records relating to Roger Clinton, the former president's half brother, and Hillary Clinton's two brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, both of whom were involved in controversial business deals and efforts to secure last-minute pardons later investigated by Congress...
Hillary's Secret White House Papers | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
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Last edited by Sheriff; 11-15-2007 at 08:21 AM.
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