Hillary Lost The Nomination Because of Iraq. Too Damned Bad That She Didn't Follow Her Moral Compass Instead of Her Ambition & Her Advisors.

"The media has been filled in recent days with new speculation about the reasons Hillary Clinton will be standing before the Democratic convention in Denver as her party’s runnerup, not as its standard-bearer. But the truth is, when she speaks to the convention’s delegates, she will do so as a candidate vanquished by one issue, and one issue only: Iraq.
Clinton, and her supporters, gave Barack Obama the political opening to enter the race - not just by her vote to authorize the war but her refusal to stand before her constituents when she ran for reelection in 2006, explain her vote and admit she had committed a grave error. Without minimizing Obama’s impressive political campaign and personal talents, his decisive support came from people vehemently opposed to the war.
Rather than take a moral stand, Clinton listened to her political operatives, whose only calculus was winning, not morality. Of the many great strategic and tactical errors her campaign made (and one hopes a positive outcome of this race is the diminished roles of Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson in shaping the Democratic Party), the greatest one was believing that a vote for the Iraq war would be a strength. Stop and think of that for a moment: to win a political office, she was willing to live with the specter of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and a huge financial cost to our country, which, by one estimate, will be $3 trillion. . . .
Had Clinton used her Senate reelection race in 2006 to admit her vote authorizing the war in Iraq was wrong, she would have been preparing to accept the Democratic nomination for President. But she failed - and her supporters failed her. People like Nadler and others, having no backbone to confront a then-feared political machine, refused to demand that she admit her vote for the war was a mistake. By falling into line, they allowed her to slide by in 2006 - and they therefore bear some responsibility for her failure in the 2008 presidential race.
But, forget political careers for a moment. The real tragedy is this: Because of her national profile and, even back when the war was being debated, her seemingly clear path to victory in the 2008 primaries, Clinton could have been a national voice against the war. With her power, celebrity and influence, she could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of American soldiers, not to mention the loss of an unconscionable amount of money. Measured against the war’s devastation, her defeat in this election pales by comparison." Hillary Clinton’s Original Sin, by Jonathan Tasini
Thanks to Dr. S