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I agree the Bill Richardson is the better choice. In fact, as an Obama supporter from the beginning and a peace activist, I am horrified that Hilary Clinton evidently has already been offered this post. It's even scarier that a Clinton era advisor is on deck for National Security Advisor.
My questions to the president elect are: Has she promised to actually read the National Intelligence Estimates before she acts on them. That's a big point for me because she based the most important vote she ever cast without reading more than the summary of the NIE, which was engineered by the Bush administration to produce the vote they wanted: blank check to invade Iraq. BIll Clinton, whose fingerprints are all over this, was far too much like Bush in his foreign policy, giving hundreds of millions to the Afghani government for the "drug war" before which he had to certify the human rights record of the government (Taliban included.)
This campaign came as a result of peace activists like me who were looking for a change in thinking, not just about domestic issues, but about international strategies as well. This is a big step backward and I am totally worried.
Before she takes the oath of office, I think she has to say, " I was wrong to vote on the authorization of power in Iraq." If I hear, "If I knew then what I know now." one more time, I'm just going to lose it. It was her responsibility to know what was going on. Others did, they took the time to read the full NIE, which was available to them. We've had now 16 years of refusal to ever admit the very human quality of error. Please, please, please no more of this attitude.

— BeARealMom

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