I was reading Riverbend blog today and one paragraph at the end illustrated what was bothering me about the shots being leveled on the Democrats chasing Hillary. The whole post is of course worth reading but it is this last bit that matters.
Remember at least 1.5 million Iraqis are refugees in Syria:
"We live in an apartment building where two other Iraqis are renting. The people in the floor above us are a Christian family from northern Iraq who got chased out of their village by Peshmerga and the family on our floor is a Kurdish family who lost their home in Baghdad to militias and were waiting for immigration to Sweden or Switzerland or some such European refugee haven.
The first evening we arrived, exhausted, dragging suitcases behind us, morale a little bit bruised, the Kurdish family sent over their representative – a 9 year old boy missing two front teeth, holding a lopsided cake, "We’re Abu Mohammed’s house- across from you- mama says if you need anything, just ask- this is our number. Abu Dalia’s family live upstairs, this is their number. We’re all Iraqi too... Welcome to the building."
I cried that night because for the first time in a long time, so far away from home, I felt the unity that had been stolen from us in 2003."
Hillary voted for that war and has voted for the same thing on Iran.
It will be very hard for me to support her if she is the Democratic nominee - Obama I want, Edwards I'll happily support, Richardson sure but Hillary - at the moment it is a no.