While other potential Dem contenders for 2008 have prostrated themselves before the antiwar left and recanted their vote for the war, Hillary makes it clear she ain't gonna be joining that club:

Sen. Hillary Clinton has been hitting the Bush administration hard over the Iraq war lately, but said yesterday she has no regrets over voting for war.

Clinton's hawkish comments were made on ABC's "Nightline" when she was asked about supporters who want her to say she's sorry for voting to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq.

"I understand that, because certainly the feelings about Iraq are very raw and deep, and I share them," she said, according to a transcript of the broadcast. "But I don't think that's responsible."

She added, "I can only look at what I knew at the time, because I don't think you get do-overs in life. I think you have to take responsibility and hopefully learn from it and go forward."

This is the most refreshingly honest and sensible thing I've heard Hillary say in a while. It's also why I hate questions that begin, "if you knew then what you know now..." The fact is that based on the intelligence we had at the time everyone - including foreign governments and almost every member of the United States Senate - thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

You don't get to pretend after the fact that that wasn't the case, nor do you get to travel back in time with the knowledge we have today. Hillary's right: there are no do-overs. Criticizing the war effort is fine, but rewriting the history that led up to the invasion and then abandoning your vote to score a few cheap political points is not governing responsibly.