RickyJim: "You have got to be kidding. The Iraq war wasn't preemptive attack mode?  A good review of Hillary's neocon history by somebody who (in desperation) is voting for Jill Stein."

... I will freely admit that there was good reason to seek the re-entry of UN weapons inspectors into Iraq for the purpose of determining whether or not he had in fact reconstituted his regime's WMD programs. That was the ostensible rationale which was presented to Congress by the Bush administration for the Iraq AUMF resolution of October 2002. In fact, the administration clearly said that supporting the AUMF was NOT a vote for war. And by making that claim, they deliberately misled Congress because their subsequent actions proved otherwise.

Those members of Congress who voted against the AUMF did so because they were wary of the administration's actual intentions regarding Iraq. As it turned out in obvious and ultimately tragic retrospect, they were entirely right to not trust George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Because once the UN inspectors had re-entered Iraq and had pretty much determined by late February 2003 that Saddam's WMD programs no longer existed, Bush and Cheney decided to pre-empt them before they could make their findings public, invaded Iraq anyway.

The Iraq War was never about WMD, even though that was its stated rationale. Rather, it turns out that it was really all about the re-establishment of Anglo-American military hegemony and corporate control over the world's second largest known reserves of oil.

Hillary Clinton freely admitted her regret for the 2002 vote for the AUMF resolution in her autobiography, noting that she was wrong to have taken the Bush administration at its word in the fall of 2002, and that her misplaced trust was far and away the biggest mistake of her entire political career.

For the Mona Lisas of the Left who keep harking back to that one particular moment in the woman's nearly 40 years on the public stage as though it should define her in toto and forevermore, and then cite that moment as their reason to vote for Jill Stein, I say fine, whatever. Do whatever it takes to keep your emotional virginity intact, even if you have to bend all the way forward and shove your own head up your arse in order to do so. Just please don't insult OUR intelligence by then insisting that the view is actually quite lovely up there.

And don't look too closely at Dr. Stein's trolling of the ignorant anti-vaccination crowd, or her own robust defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subject of his country's human rights abuses against the Russian LGBT community, journalists and environmentalists, or her vandalizing of private construction equipment at the North Dakota pipeline project and then blaming the very same Lakota Sioux that she was supposedly there to support.

Because perfection is the enemy of the good, and hypocrisy has long been Jill Stein's middle name. And such knowledge likely won't sit too well with the holy sopranos and blessed contraltos of the Purity Tabernacle Choir. Then, they'll have no choice but to vote for the guy who thinks Aleppo is one of the Marx Brothers, and who couldn't name a single current foreign leader when asked by a reporters.

So personality traits aren't a factor that should be so cavalierly discounted.