Opinion (Kathleen Parker): If I had known ...

THE COULDA-shoulda-woulda chorus just added a new soprano. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., says she wouldn't have voted for the war in Iraq if she'd known then what she knows now.

Clinton was one of the last holdouts among the probable 2008 Democratic presidential candidates to embrace hindsight regarding her vote in 2002 on a resolution approving the invasion of Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

It's been interesting to watch formerly pro-war leaders distance themselves, one by one, as conditions have deteriorated in Iraq. As always, timing is everything.

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