Antiwar Anger at ’02 Vote on Iraq Follows Clinton - New York Times

One of the most important decisions that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made about her bid for the presidency came late last year when she ended a debate in her camp over whether she should repudiate her 2002 vote authorizing military action in Iraq.

Several advisers, friends and donors said in interviews that they had urged her to call her vote a mistake in order to appease antiwar Democrats, who play a critical role in the nominating process. Yet Mrs. Clinton herself, backed by another faction, never wanted to apologize — even if she viewed the war as a mistake — arguing that an apology would be a gimmick.

I suspect this carefully leaked “story” is the beginning of an extended Clintonian “Sister Souljah moment,” where Hillary bravely takes a position supported by a large majority of the voting public. The lefties and their fifth columnist surrogates in the mainstream media have been pushing the myth that most Americans oppose the efforts in Iraq, when, in fact, what many Americans oppose is the wishy-washy, half-hearted nature of our efforts there - and elsewhere.

The left wing of the Democrats - which is about forty percent of the party - is going to discover the hard way how big a mistake they are making by trying to engineer a surrender to our Islamist enemies abroad. I think the Clintons - never to be called slouches in their understanding of practical politics - know this, and have calculated that the left can’t halt Hillary’s march to the nomination. Therefore, now is the time to begin to gather in the center and right of their party, as well as those who support resisting our enemies with military force in the Republican party, as well as the “non-aligned” middle.

It’s no accident that the WaPo has initiated a slash-and-burn attack against senile faux-warrior John Murtha, either.

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