Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. gestures while speaking at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meetings in Washington, yesterday. (AP)
Posted on 02/03/2007 3:03:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she would end the Iraq war as president if the conflict was still raging when she took office.
"If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will," the New York Democrat said at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting here.
Iraq and economic populism were by far the dominant issues among the half-dozen presidential contenders who sought their party leadership's support at the DNC meeting. Mrs. Clinton and her chief rivals repeatedly brought the overflow crowd at the Washington Hilton to its feet in cheering each denunciation of President Bush's war policies.
After well-received speeches by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who called for early troop withdrawal from a war they said never should have been waged, Mrs. Clinton was under pressure to stake out an equally strong policy position before the fiercely anti-war audience.
"I want to be very clear about this: If I had been president in October 2002, I would not have started this war," said the former first lady, who has been criticized by anti-war voices for voting to authorize the war and steadfastly refusing to support calls for a military pullout.
Mrs. Clinton has refused to say her vote for the war was a mistake and has proposed a cap on troop levels instead of troop reductions. A group of anti-war hecklers could be heard in the packed hall when she talked about her support for a Senate resolution opposing Mr. Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, a resolution some of her rivals have called weak and ineffective.
But she defended the nonbinding resolution being debated in the Senate.
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Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. gestures while speaking at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meetings in Washington, yesterday. (AP)
That picture of Hillary could be used by itself in a "Caption This Photo" thread. :-)
Theres a picture of Adolf Hitler in a very similar pose.
Yes, but was Adolph promising to end war?
We cannot win in Iraq, we must not win in Iraq.
That is my promise to you if elected as president
my moonbat comrades.
Yes, but was Adolf promising to end war?
Well, that gets her the Terrorist vote.
I agree.
The more people see and hear her the less most of them like her.
What I find laughable about Hitler was that in his youth he was a pacifist and hated war.
Hillary and vows should never appear in the same sentence.
""If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will," the New York Democrat said at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting here. "
She will likely encounter mass resignation from the officer corps or a military takeover of the government! Likely the former.
This picture shows what we'll be in for if she becomes POTUS.
Hopefully she cracks up before then.
Oh my. Hillary's new face isn't holding up very good. What a shame, wonder what it cost her?
Just some things money can't buy.
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