Hillary!, the War Cheerleader
Cato Podcast
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4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2014
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, June 18th, 2014. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:09.3 | Hillary Clinton is ramping up her very likely campaign for president, so it's worth taking a look at her record |
| 0:14.6 | on the subject of war. |
| 0:16.2 | Gene Healy, vice president of the Cato Institute and author of the cult of the presidency |
| 0:20.1 | says Hillary Clinton, at least in recent decades, never met a war she didn't like. |
| 0:26.0 | Based on the media blitz that Hillary Clinton has been engaging in lately, it seems |
| 0:31.0 | clearer than ever that she is running for president. |
| 0:34.2 | So it's an opportune time to look at some of her greatest hits, |
| 0:39.4 | as it were. |
| 0:40.5 | So where would you start here? |
| 0:43.0 | Oh yeah, she's been peddling her new memoir, hard choices given to us by the same title generating software that gave us George W Bush's decision points. |
| 0:55.0 | And she, it has been a media blitz. |
| 0:57.0 | She was on Fox News the other night and she got a lot more questions about four dead Americans in Benghazi than she did about 4,500 dead Americans in the Iraq war, which she voted for. |
| 1:11.8 | But she has been getting a lot of questions about Iraq recently, and that's |
| 1:15.8 | as it should be, because her role in helping perpetuate the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam is certainly |
| 1:26.1 | something that ought to be looked at in terms of her fitness for higher office. |
| 1:30.3 | So how has she treated her support for the Iraq war? |
| 1:35.0 | She apparently says something very strange in the memoir. |
| 1:39.0 | She says that, I quote, I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. |
| 1:49.5 | Usually I think you kind of know whether you're acting in good faith. You have all the |
| 1:54.0 | information about your own mental state that you need so it's a strange |
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