I do feel for Hillary, often, and I admire what she has managed to accomplish and I respect her fierce energy and commitment and courage in the face of a great deal of unfair and yes, sexist abuse over years. You can't assume I don't based on my assessment of one action of hers.

But I found that action personally appalling, and if I came across as simplistic in addressing it, maybe I am, if judgmental, maybe I am (although maybe not more so than you yourself...;-)

But I know that if I had voted to authorise a war which turned out to be unnecessary and wrong, whether through unpreparedness, lack of judgment or for political reasons, I would not, under any circumstances, use any of the victims of that war or my emotional response to those victims in any public arena to advance my own agenda, no matter how I believed in that agenda--or how genuine the emotional response.