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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.
He ignored the U.N. and launched a war. The Bush administration tried to get the U.N. Security Council to authorize an attack on Iraq, which it refused to do. Bush then decided to lead a preemptive attack regardless of international consequences. He did not wait for any congressional authorization to launch a war.