Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
Posted on 02/03/2007 11:51:49 AM PST by conservative in nyc
Pumping her fists and shouting to the rooftops, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed yesterday to bring an immediate end to the war in Iraq if she's elected president.
"If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will," Clinton pledged in a speech to the Democratic faithful as she staked out a new position on the conflict.
While she has been escalating her criticism of the war for months, yesterday was the first time Clinton spoke about what she would do about it if she wins the White House in 2008.
The former first lady's pledge to pull the plug on Iraq and bring the troops home came during the Democratic National Committee's annual winter meeting. She and her top-tier White House rivals, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, took tough stands against the war.
Clinton, raising her voice at one point to be heard above a few anti-war hecklers, also suggested that calls from Edwards and others to cut off funding for President Bush's troop increase are unlikely to win approval in a narrowly divided Senate.
"Believe me, I understand the frustration and the outrage," said Clinton, who is backing a Senate resolution that expresses disapproval of the troop surge but would not cut off funding.
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Clinton was heckled by a handful of anti-war activists, including one man who dressed in desert camouflage that read "Iraq Veterans Against the War," and barked, "Bring them home."
But the war critics were outnumbered by Clinton backers who waved her signature blue campaign placards at high points in her 20-minute speech.
"If I had been president in October of 2002, I would not have started this war," she said.
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What is her plan?
And if she has a plan, why doesn't she share it now?
And if she doesn't share it now, won't the coming deaths be on her head?
Or is her "plan" surrender?
If this is what we can expect in her campaigning for the next two years, she has no chance.
I have to say, I am surprised. Thought she was at least a cool contrived bit*h.
TRAITOR!"
Nothing could be further from the truth. Iran will attack the SA during her Presidency. A mideast war will BEGIN during her Presidency.
Be careful what you wish for, Hillary.
Given what such a quick withdrawal would mean, that is reason enough to keep her out of the Oval Office.
And she will simply blame it on Bush.
No one ever spent more time being "Sick...and...tired!"
So as the President, Bush doesn't have the power to run the war or the troops. But as president she would have the power to stop it unillaterally?
I thought she wanted the president to end it for her.
They left out the final part of her pronouncement.
"...and damn the consequences!"
To say whatever she thinks she needs to say to whoever she is talking to to obtain whatever she wants at the time. Sound familiar? (Hint: think Bill).
A jihadi in every pot, and a suicide bomber in every mall...
Why hasn't anyone reported what she said about taking all the profits away from the oil companies, which was heard at the same meeting as her end the war statements?
Maybe she means she'll end the war in Kosovo?
She is.
This woman must be defeated --- she cannot be CIC.
Heaven help the people in the same room with her when she finds out she did NOT win!!!
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