{"id":48507,"date":"2015-06-24T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48507"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:59:54","slug":"hillary-hq-hillary-clinton-never-supported-the-bushcheney-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/06\/hillary-hq-hillary-clinton-never-supported-the-bushcheney-invasion-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary HQ: Hillary Clinton Never Supported the Bush\/Cheney Invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hilary-clinton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3020\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hilary-clinton-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"hilary-clinton\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hilary-clinton-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hilary-clinton-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hilary-clinton.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;She voted for the war!&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;She&#8217;s an unapologetic hawk!&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;She&#8217;s just another Dick Cheney when it comes to foreign policy!&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These are the charges I&#8217;ve heard over and over again for years&#8230;and as a longtime Hillary Clinton supporter who was against the Iraq War from the beginning, it never ceases to bug the hell out of me. My normal reply, which often starts with an audible sigh followed by &#8220;Well, actually&#8230;&#8221; usually does nothing to change these opinions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But as tiring as it may be, I will keep defending her on this issue because the record and her statements over the past 13 years clearly undermine the misconception that Hillary was &#8220;for the war&#8221;. So brace yourselves, because here is again&#8230;the actual truth of the matter:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hillary Clinton never voted to go to war in Iraq, nor did she support the Bush\/Cheney decision to kick out the UN weapons inspectors and invade.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since some may find that statement to be controversial, let&#8217;s be crystal clear: Clinton could not have voted to go to war because the United States Congress hasn&#8217;t officially declared war on any country since 1942.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full Article: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryhq.com\/2015\/05\/hillary-clinton-never-supported.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary HQ: Hillary Clinton Never Supported the Bush\/Cheney Invasion of Iraq<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She voted for the war!&#8221; &#8220;She&#8217;s an unapologetic hawk!&#8221; &#8220;She&#8217;s just another Dick Cheney when it comes to foreign policy!&#8221; These are the charges I&#8217;ve heard over and over again for years&#8230;and as a longtime Hillary Clinton supporter who was against the Iraq War from the beginning, it never ceases to bug the hell out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1628,22,68],"tags":[1622,748,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48510,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48507\/revisions\/48510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}