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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.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, set to become speaker in the next Congress, said the first step toward a new direction in Iraq should be Rumsfeld's departure. Among the outspoken critics of the Bush administration, and Rumsfeld in particular, is Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., himself a Vietnam War veteran.