Paul: Benghazi affair should disqualify Clinton from holding office again

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Clinton's vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq is less a a reason to vote against her in itself than it is a symptom of why she shouldn't be the Democratic nominee.

Then again, I hardly blame anyone who looks at voting in support of the most disastrous mistake made by federal policymakers in the past decade as a disqualifier, particularly as a significant number of Senate Democrats did vote against it. The same applies to Biden, Bayh, Warner, and anyone else who made the same foolish and cowardly mistake.

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No, Iraq should disqualify Clinton from becoming President, but apparently all the "liberals" seem to be suffering from collective amnesia.

Given the information that was put forward to them at the time, it wouldn't have made sense to vote against the resolution unless you were a McGovern-level dove.

Generally, when a lie is told, the blame falls on the people telling the lie, not the people who believe it to be true and have no reason to think otherwise.

Twenty-one Democrats in the Senate and more in the House voted against the resolution. Opposition was hardly a fringe position, just not one that was in accord with the sacrosanct Beltway consensus.