Hillary Clinton never reversed her position, that's why Obama beat her. She has done so recently.
Not exactly true. Here are two quotes, and there are many more, that she made prior to the election.
'During an April 20, 2004 interview on
Larry King Live, Clinton was asked about her October 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq war resolution.
Obviously, I've thought about that a lot in the months since. No, I don't regret giving the president authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States, and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade.... The consensus was the same, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared."
"Clinton opposed the
Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and supported a February 2007 non-binding Senate resolution against it, which failed to gain cloture. On February 5, 2007, Clinton said: "Believe me, I understand the frustration and the outrage ... You have to have 60 votes to cap troops, to limit funding to do anything. If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will."
Clinton didn't have the same intel as Bush.
Since she had been in the White House for 8 years before Bush took office, you may be correct. She probably had considerably more intel than Bush did. This is what President Clinton did regarding Iraq.
The
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
The Act found that between 1980 and 1998
Iraq had:
1. committed various and significant violations of
international law,
2. had failed to comply with the obligations to which it had agreed following the
Gulf War and
3. further had ignored resolutions of the
United Nations Security Council.
The Act declared that it was the Policy of the United States to support "regime change." The Act was passed 360-38 in the
U.S. House of Representatives and by
unanimous consent in the
Senate.
US President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law on October 31, 1998.
President Clinton stated in February 1998:
"It is obvious that there is an attempt here, based on the whole history of this operation since 1991, to protect whatever remains of his capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, the missiles to deliver them, and the feed stocks necessary to produce them. The UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq still has stockpiles of chemical and biological munitions, a small force of Scud-type missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly its production program and build many, many more weapons....
Now, let's imagine the future. What if he fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made? Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal...."