Clinton didn't bother to read the NIE

Experience only takes you so far. You still have to do occasionally.

from Time's coverage of the rally today in Ohio. Obama responds to the Clinton Red Phone commercial:

This is a fight about the facts because we have been very specific about every issue under the sun in the last few days and Senator Clinton has been running around telling people that our entire campaign, according to her, is only based on the fact that I gave a speech in opposition to the war in Iraq from the start. That is the only basis of my campaign. And then, on the other hand, she has, supposedly, all this vast foreign policy experience.
Now, I have to say when it came to making the most important foreign policy decision of our generation – the decision to invade Iraq – Senator Clinton got it wrong. She didn’t read the National Intelligence Estimate, Jay Rockefeller read it, but she didn’t read it. I don’t know what all that experience got her because in my experience if you have a National Intelligence Estimate and the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says, 'You should read this, this is why I’m voting against the war,' then you should probably read it. I don’t know how much experience you need for that.

She didn’t first give diplomacy a chance. And to this day, she won’t even admit that her vote was a mistake or even that it was a vote for war. And so besides that decision to invade Iraq, we’re still waiting to hear Senator Clinton tell us what precise foreign policy experience that she is claiming that makes her prepared to answer that phone call at three in the morning.
After taking questions, Obama circled back to Clinton and tried to explain his criticisms of her.
Senator Clinton is a strong candidate… and I’ve tried as much as possible to not talk about the flaws of the other candidates but why I’m right. And I think that the reason that we’ve done well is because people understand that it isn’t about the 10-point plan because we’ve all got 10-point plans… but about who can bring the country together and who can fight the special interests.

[From Westerville: Part Two - Swampland - TIME]

and a bit of clarifying:

Obama did kind of flub the Rockefeller reference, but he did it in a sly way that was factually correct but left the audience with the incorrect impression the the current Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, voted against the war in Iraq. Actually, Bob Graham was chairman at the time and he did read the NIE and he did cite it as one of his justifications for voting against the war.

The broader point is of course that Clinton (and other Democratic Senators who also voted for the Iraq invasion) didn't want to read the full NIE because then they might not be able to vote for the war without thinking about it a little. Much easier to accept the lies given by the Bush Administration, and (theoretically) inoculate themselves from voting against a "popular" war that would only last a couple days. Experience, in other words, led to a poor decision. Not to mention the war turned out to be built upon flawed intelligence, and an unpopular quagmire with no end in sight.