Hillary Clinton: Voting in favor of the Iraq war was a 'mistake'

At an event in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton told reporters that her vote supporting the Iraq war in 2002 was a "mistake."

"I made it very clear that I made a mistake, plain and simple," Clinton said. "What we now see is a very different and dangerous situation."

Clinton's comments come as former chief of staff for George W. Bush Andy Card said that even George W. Bush wouldn't have invaded Iraq if he knew what he knew now.

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"I don't think George W. Bush would say knowing now he would have made that decision," Card said on Morning Joe on Wednesday. Card also criticized Jeb Bush's statements on invading Iraq after he clarified that in hindsight, he wouldn't have invaded Iraq after he first said he still would, even given new information. "I don't think it would have taken his brother that long to clean it up," Card told host Joe Scarborough.