RNC Knocks Clinton Over Vote To Authorize George W. Bush’s Iraq War

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on immigration at an event at Rancho High School Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Irony alert.

In a memo published over the weekend, the Republican National Committee whacked Dem frontrunner Hillary Clinton over her vote in favor of authorizing President George W. Bush to take military action in Iraq.

“Throughout her career, Clinton has always been wrong on Iraq,” the memo says in its “TOP TAKEAWAYS.”

“Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq, which was devastating to her 2008 presidential bid,” the memo notes, with no sense of irony about the signature foreign policy failure of the Buh years.

The memo, which is little more than a glorified press release pegged to the anniversary of her Iraq War vote, goes on to note the regrets Clinton expressed about her vote. Its spin is that for political reasons she then voted against the Iraq War surge and has supported the U.S. withdrawal from the region.

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