And in a nod to Mr. Edwards’s fierce criticism of the war since leaving the Senate, she said, “I’m still in the arena — I’m still fighting to get those 60 votes,” a reference to the number of voters that Senate Democrats are trying to muster for a nonbinding resolution opposing Mr. Bush’s war plan.  Mrs. Clinton’s 2002 vote poses political peril for her candidacy; she has not repudiated her vote, as Mr. Edwards has done of his, and she lacks the record of consistent criticism against the war of Mr. Obama, who was not in the Senate in 2002. During one forum early Saturday in the economically struggling city of Berlin in northern New Hampshire, Mrs. Clinton used tough language to blame President Bush and his advisers for Iraq, asserting that they came into power in 2001 with an “obsession“ to oust Saddam Hussein and resolve the “unfinished business” of the first Persian Gulf war.  “From almost the first day they got into office,” Mrs. Clinton said, “they were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I’m not a psychiatrist; I don’t know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.”  While she tried to keep the audience of 300 people in Berlin focused on Mr. Bush, she was forced at one point to account for her own history on Iraq. One audience member, Roger Tilton of Nashua, asked her “right here, right now, once and for all, without nuance” to call her 2002 vote “a mistake.”  “Until we hear you say that, we’re not going to hear all these other great things you’ve said,” Mr. Tilton said.  In response, Mrs. Clinton repeated her standard talking points that she would never have cast it if she had had the intelligence information that she had now.  She also tailored some of her remarks to the economic struggles of Berlin, a city of about 8,000 people that has been shedding jobs from its pulp and paper mills.  “I think there is a great opportunity for using wood for a fuel of the future, just like it was a fuel of the past,” Mrs. Clinton said. “If we can provide the right incentives, and we can give people the extra help we need by tax incentives and other ways of creating new jobs, we can begin to do this.”  In Concord, Senator Clinton also criticized President Bush for not asking Americans to make sacrifices or commitments. When an audience member reminded her, sympathetically, that Mr. Bush had suggested that Americans go shopping after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mrs. Clinton picked up on that line.  “That’s right, the only thing after 9/11 — ‘go shopping,’ ” she said. “I was just appalled by that.”  Although Mrs. Clinton did not bring former President Bill Clinton with her, she tried to turn his popularity in New Hampshire to her advantage at several points, though she joked she would not be following his political playbook entirely.  “Probably the only thing that I’ll try to do differently from my husband is not so many Dunkin’ Donuts stops,” Mrs. Clinton said, evoking the lore of Mr. Clinton’s snacking habits during the 1992 presidential campaign. “I honestly think Bill gained about 20 pounds in the New Hampshire primary, and I cannot afford that.”  A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A34 of the New York edition with the headline: In New Hampshire, Clinton Owns Up to Her Vote on Iraq War. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Campaigning in the state for the first time as a presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton faced questions and scrutiny about Iraq.