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Clinton is a Bush Enabler says Lincoln Chafee

Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 05:25:50 PM PDT

Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the lone Republican senator to vote against the Iraq war, calls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton one of the "Democratic Bush enablers" who failed to stand up to the president.

In a new book, Chafee, who is backing Clinton rival Sen. Barack Obama, skewers Clinton and other Democratic White House hopefuls who said they were duped by Bush into voting for the war.

"Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill," Chafee writes. "They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment, in my view."

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I have had the wonderful opportunity of once meeting Senator Chafee and is genuinely a principled, good and thoughtful man.  He was a Republican because he was born into a family with a very long history with the Republicans.  Senator Chafee changed his voter registration from Republican to Unaffiliated in 2007 and has endorsed Barack Obama.

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