Why Not Hillary Clinton?
There’s no question that Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president. She is bright, experienced, and politically savvy. But there are compelling reasons not to want her to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate. One is her vote for the Iraq war resolution in 2002, and her defense of that vote since. Clinton insists that she was misled, and that she did not think Bush would attack Iraq. She was either dangerously nave or politically calculating, risking war in order to appear tough in a future presidential campaign. Worse, she had another option. Prior to the vote on the war resolution, Michigan Senator Carl Levin introduced a substitute, a resolution that would have required United Nations approval before the US used force against Iraq. In a New York Times op-ed piece last March, former Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee recalled efforts he and other senators made to get the Levin resolution approved. “We asserted that the Iraqi regime, though undeniably heinous, did not constitute
