US Uncut: In Tonite's Town Hall, Did Hillary Admit Her Iraq War Vote Was A Bribe?

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Did Hillary Clinton Just Admit on LIVE TV That Her Iraq War Vote Was a Bribe? (VIDEO)

Tom Cahill | March 15, 2016


During tonight’s Democratic town hall on MSNBC, Hillary Clinton shockingly defended her vote for the Iraq War as a favor for President Bush helping New York after 9/11.

Around the 4-minute mark of the video below, Clinton admitted that she had “a different set of experiences” with George W. Bush than Sanders did, in response to Chris Matthews asking her why she was wrong on Iraq War while Sanders was right.

“I’m sitting there in the Oval Office, and Bush says to me, ‘What do you need?’ And I said, ‘I need $20 billion to rebuild, you know, New York,’ and he said, ‘You got it.’ And he was good to his word,” Clinton said in response to Matthews’ question on why Bernie Sanders was right on the Iraq War vote and Clinton was wrong.

“Literally, that same day, I get back to the Capitol, and the Republicans are trying to take that money away. We kept calling the White House, Bush kept saying, ‘I gave them my word, I’m going to stick with it.’ So, you know, I had a different set of experiences.”

http://on.msnbc.com/1YTttZw


http://usuncut.com/politics/hillary-clinton-iraq-war-vote-bribe-video/

[bkkyosemite]

1. I did not watch..but if this is true omg

[Betty Karlson]

22. As always she was a follower, not a leader.

Which is why she shouldn't be in the White House: I don't trust the characters she follows.

[AzDar]

2. K & R

[riderinthestorm]

3. Wow!!

[Merryland]

4. that's sure what it sounds like - quid pro quo - she must have taken a truth serum...

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

5. This is exactly why people are done with these establishment politicians... n/t

[BeanMusical]

6. Kick and R

[TwilightGardener]

7. What the fuck is this? This is nonsensical and baffling.

[lostnfound]

8. Not necessarily. It could also mean that she considered him honest / "his word was good" nt

[morningfog]

10. But it wa ms in the context of why she voted for the war.

The war which we all know as based on lies and the war in which a million innocent people were killed.

[morningfog]

9. I'll trade you one million dead Iraqis, 5,000 dead US troops for $20 billion. DEAL!

[GoneFishin]

16. Bingo. And heaping trillions in national debt repayment onto future generations of young people.

[840high]

18. yep

[morningfog]

11. So her different experience is that Bernie would trade blood for money?

[BernieforPres2016]

12. No, I think that's a mischaracterization of what she said

She was explaining that she trusted GWB on the Iraq War because he had stuck to his word on giving New York the $20 billion she had asked for to help rebuild after 9/11 even as others in his party were trying to take it away.

What I question is whether the story about Bush and 9/11 was bullshit. She was claiming that within a day or two after 9/11 that Republicans were determined to give no federal money to help rebuild New York City after the attack. I find that very hard to believe.

[Hydra]

14. This is an excellent point

We can't be sure it's not a lie or an artful twist of the truth. She may have gotten something and used this story as a more altruistic cover, making both her and Bush look better.

Very Machiavellian if so.

[Hydra]

13. This illustrates exactly why her presidency would be a problem

Bush scratched her back, and that put her in debt to him later. New York should have had the money to rebuild, no strings, no questions.

How many people is she indebted to? How many favors need to be handed out to balance the books, or how many is she planning to give out to fill her rainy day fund?

[reformist2]

15. She has made more bizarre statements in the past week than I ever remember her doing!

[SoapBox]

17. You got that right!

[JDPriestly]

19. Brazen corruption by both Republicans and Democrats.

No wonder Bernie ran as an Independent for so many years.

[Bonobo]

20. She doesn't even know how disgusting that is, does she?

She is so foully steeped in the politics of corruption and amorality that she doesn't even realize how odious that is.

It is nauseating.

There is no choice if you are a person who holds our political policies to the same standard of morality that we have (if we have standards of morality, that is).

[BeanMusical]

28. +1

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Obviously, she has mastered the wink-wink/nudge-nudge style of American politics.

[AzDar]

23. " Money Trumps Peace" --- Dubya

[senz]

26. Funny how her supporters talk about what a "Democrat" she is.

[Lancero]

24. She shot herself in the foot twice in the same interview.

Hillary seems to be channeling Carson.

[renate]

25. I can't get the video to load for me, but

(maybe it's my ad blockers?)

In fairness to Hillary, could it be that she trusted Bush on Iraq because he stuck to his word on New York funding? I.e., not that she voted that way to keep up her end of a bribe, but because she thought he was trustworthy?

(And having said that--that does kind of bring her judgment into question. But the main thing I'm saying is that it wasn't really a bribe kind of thing. Because trading human lives for money would be pretty horrible and I don't think that's what she actually did.)

[azurnoir]

27. well at least she had a reason for her vote

[jberryhill]

30. How is that a "bribe"?

[coyote]

31. pretty simple really:

I give you 20 billion, and you vote for my war so we can destory nation states and kill millions of people.

[jberryhill]

33. And the money was to her, personally?

Again, I'm not sure you have the correct meaning of the word "bribe".

[raouldukelives]

32. Sounds like someones ideal for progressiveness in action. nt