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Plain and simpleâ when she voted as a U.S. senator to authorize the war in Iraq, according to her new memoir. Clintonâs support, in 2002, for the Iraq War Resolution dogged her unsuccessful 2008 run for President against Barack Obama, who opposed the war from the start.
In response to rival Lincoln Chafee suggesting that the Iraq vote is reason to question her judgment, Clinton replied, âWell, I recall very wellâbeing on a debate stage, I think, about 25 times with then-Senator Obama debating this very issue. After the election he asked me to become secretary of state.