Reply #51: He marched with us in 2003 before the war [View All]

[Donna Zen]

Obama marched in an anti-war rally before the war in March of 2003 when damn few politicians were willing to do that. Where was Senator Clinton? Where is Senator Clinton's speech against going to war? Why did someone with access whenever she asked not make a round of the talk shows to speak out? I don't turn my back on those who stood with us when times were hard. And I don't understand the crass behavior of those who now attack them with partisan blather.

Ask Stephanie...she can vouch for me. We had a thread on different forum. The thread was called "The Forever War." Our group used that thread to collect everything related to the coming war. Every article foreign and domestic and every bio of every player was documented in our collection. Now here's the kicker: we started collecting evidence in the spring of 2002, because we knew then what was going to happen. Going to war in Iraq was the worst kept secret in US history. My connection to great affairs of state is by dialup from the middle of the woods, and I certainly knew. PNAC didn't write to my husband. I wasn't privy to the chatter about the open meetings being held by Chalabi and the Iraq Reconstruction Group. In an new book Lincoln Chaffee writes about seeing bush's so-called proof and walking away in horror.

If you wish to support Senator Clinton that is your right. You do not have the right to call people liars when they are telling the truth. Senator Obama's 2002 speech called this damn war exactly. I suspect that his close association with Samantha Powers who is close to General Clark is reflected in his thinking. To my ears, these words are both familiar and true.

Again, I respect those who stood against this war, and my respect is not dependent on agreeing with their every idea. It required judgment and leadership to do the right thing. Today we pay for this war economically, morally, and in a terrible loss of world approval. We will continue to pay that price for many years to come. If more brave souls had joined us, we might have avoided this ill fated journey. Senator Clinton would have been a great boost to our effort. Unfortunately that was not the choice she made.

Just as you are willing to exercise your own thinking when considering your candidate, you must also use your own mind to understand the hard reality of history. Until these myths are unwound, how can we make the necessary corrections in America? That acceptance does not rule out your support for Senator Clinton, in fact, it may strengthen it. I don't know.