So apparently this is now a thing. What happened was that Clinton didn’t actually vote for the war in Iraq. According to Clinton, what she voted for was leverage. And then, whoopsie, George Bush invaded Iraq. Hey don’t blame her, she voted for leverage. At CNN’s town hall last evening:

Clinton said: "The very explicit appeal that President Bush made before announcing the invasion that getting that vote would be a strong piece of leverage in order to finish the inspections. And he made that comment.”

Am I taking crazy pills, or is this seriously….like….. not what happened at all?

…...the then-senator from New York opted to vote against an amendment to the resolution that would have stressed a U.N.-centric approach. The amendment by Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Michigan, would have limited U.S. military action to enforcing a new U.N. resolution to eliminate Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.

So the Levin amendment stated that the U.S. would only go to war if Iraq was deemed in violation of the sanction regime the UN was trying to impose. The amendment, in other words, was a vote for leverage. Iraq doesn’t comply with the inspection regime, we invade. Simple. The problem is that Hillary Clinton voted against this amendment, and voted for unilateral action at the sole discretion of the Bush administration. Her story is pure, revisionist fiction. Or, as CNN put it….

Reality Check: Clinton on Iraq War vote Verdict: False.

Carry on….

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