I have always considered HRC to be a very smart, highly intelligent woman. I can see no way that she would have been fooled by Bush's intentions vis-a-vis Iraq. She made a very calculated decision to cement her hawkish credentials in order to shore up support among centrist and right of center voters. Had all gone well and had it ended after the "purple finger" elections, she would be running unopposed. However, as happens sometimes in life, not just in politics, she miscalculated. Badly. Her inability to accept that miscalculation early and then compounding it and staying the course with her vote on the Kyl-Lieberman resolution basically doomed her candidacy. Even if she becomes her party's nominee, there's not going to be a Hillary in the White House come January 2009.
I have always considered HRC to be a very smart, highly intelligent woman. I can see no way that she would have been fooled by Bush's intentions vis-a-vis Iraq. She made a very calculated decision to cement her hawkish credentials in order to shore up support among centrist and right of center voters. Had all gone well and had it ended after the "purple finger" elections, she would be running unopposed. However, as happens sometimes in life, not just in politics, she miscalculated. Badly. Her inability to accept that miscalculation early and then compounding it and staying the course with her vote on the Kyl-Lieberman resolution basically doomed her candidacy. Even if she becomes her party's nominee, there's not going to be a Hillary in the White House come January 2009.