APRIL 10, 2015
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s long-anticipatedannouncement that she is running for president in 2016 is expected to come this Sunday. But the decision that played a big part in her losing the 2008 nomination, as well as her long foreign-policy record, is already haunting her 2016 bid.
President Barack Obama successfully used Clinton’s support of the Iraq war to surge to victory over the former senator and first lady during the 2008 Democratic primary. Now, with the rise of the Islamic State and the United States once again engaged in military operations in Iraq, rivals are taking Clinton to task for her decision to support the original war.
“Considering the premise for invading Iraq was based on falsehoods and considering the ramifications we live with now from that mistake, I would argue that anybody who voted for the Iraq War should not be president and certainly should not be leading the Democratic Party,” Sen. Lincoln Chafee (D-R.I.), told CNN in a recent interview. Chafee has formed a committee to explore a presidential bid.
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