Hillary Clinton Says She Was Misled

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is doing well in the polls. In Iowa this weekend, the very talented former first lady was greeted like a rock star. Here's a story from Ray Quintanilla of of the Chicago Tribune:

DAVENPORT, IOWA -- On the second day of her campaign swing across the state, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) confronted her vote for the invasion of Iraq by saying she was misled, and she called on President Bush to end the conflict before leaving the White House in 2009.

"I live with this every day," Clinton told a standing-room only crowd in this Mississippi River community on Sunday. "The president is determined to move forward on a plan that won't succeed. He should extricate the country before he leaves office."

She doesn't quite say it, but I'm glad that Hillary Clinton essentially admits she made a mistake. When you admit that you have made a mistake, you get closer to the reality; that means you can get closer to the problem and do something about it—that's a lesson President Bush has not yet learned.

But the Bush Administration dragged us into a war in Iraq that we did not need and deliberately said things that were not true. And many Americans were misled and no one should forget that. But I have a question. It's not an idle question and sooner or later the Clinton campaign is going to have to address it. Bill Clinton was president for eight years; he dealt with Iraq several times. What was Bill Clinton's position on all this and what advice did he give Hillary, if any?