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By Harold Meyerson | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | The Washington Post

There are strong parallels between Hilary Clinton’s record on the Iraq War and the war-vote history of Ed Muskie, who was the apparent front runner amon Democratic Presidential hopefuls in 1972. Muskie’s campaign was scuttled because Nixon’s high-handed escalation of the Vietnam War (which now seems small compared to Bush’s adamant escalation of the Iraq Mess) drove Democratic voters toward a candidate who had been consistently against that war, calling strongly for US withdrawal. And it was just such a candidate – George McGovern – who eventually ran against Nixon (an election complicated by the Watergate burglary). Hilary Clinton is in an eerily similar situation as she opens her campaign in New Hampshire…BS

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