Hillary to Troops: Support for War Fading

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/29/03 | "With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff"

[thesummerwind]

Moderator note: I know it's going to be tough, but, please watch the calls for violence against this creature.

In a demoralizing message to U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, visiting New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told them that Americans back home are growing increasingly skeptical of President Bush's decision to send them into battle.

Describing two meetings with G.I.s over turkey dinners in Baghdad, Sen. Clinton told reporters later that soldiers wanted to know "how the people at home feel about what we are doing."

Clinton said she told the troops, "Americans are wholeheartedly proud of what you are doing but there are many questions at home about the (Bush) administration's policies."

She also suggested that the U.S. could eventually loose the war in Iraq, contending, "We have to exert all of our efforts militarily, but the outcome is not assured."

Despite her sour pronouncements, the former first lady insisted that the soldiers were just as glad to see her as they were President Bush, whose surprise visit less than 24-hours earlier was greeted with standing ovations.

"It's a positive for the commander-in-chief to visit troops in the field," Clinton told reporters, adding, "the troops [also] seemed to appreciate seeing myself."

Speaking from a secure location just over the Kuwaiti border, Mrs. Clinton launched one verbal salvo after another at the White House, arguing that Bush officials had been "obsessed" with getting Saddam Hussein and saying the perception blinded them to the difficulties of deposing his regime.

"The Pentagon tried to make do with as few troops as possible, as light a footprint as they could get away with," Clinton said. "Now, we're playing catchup . . . Unfortunately, I don't think they fully appreciated the conditions we would encounter."

The top Democrat also reprised her charge that the White House is being less than candid when it comes to apprising the American people of the costs of the war.

"The obstacles and problems here are much greater than the administration usually admits to," she said, adding, "Everybody has to be honest."

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Moderator note:

US Senate Select Committee on Ethics

http://ethics.senate.gov/

http://voinovich.senate.gov/

http://roberts.senate.gov/e-mail_pat.html

http://thomas.senate.gov/html/email.html

Chairman – Direct Contact

Phone: 202-224-4774

Fax: 202-224-3514

Committee – Direct Phone Number

(202) 224 - 2981

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Is Ann Coulter a Constitutional attorney? (I think she is...?) Maybe someone could get in touch with her and see if there's anything that could be done.

[Rander7]

I for one , live in NYS...NOT ALL of us voted for the witch! In fact, western NYS where we hail from, was largely for Rick Lazio! We feel the same way you do about Hitlery! Just imagine how we feel, when they say contact your Senate Reps...all we have to choose from is Chuckie Shumer, or the witch! It was downstate NY that voted both of them in! I think NYC should secede, and be it's own state! Actually NYS is quite a beautiful place!

[Republican Red]

Rush, Hannity, Boortz, Drudge.....

You lurkers with some media power out there, please follow-up!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yes.

Her email:

http://clinton.senate.gov/email_form.html

Her Phone:

Phone: (202) 224-4451
General Fax: (202) 228-0282

[FairOpinion]

The beauty is that Bush truly means it.

And the troops know it.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Jane Fonda redux"

Just like hanoi jane, hitlery remains free from any indictments for her crimes.

If the US Attorney General actually followed his oath of office
hitlery would not be "visiting" our troops.
She would be in prison for her crimes and "speaking" with fellow inmates.

[the invisib1e hand]

I'm sure a dozen people will post this in about 2 minutes' time, but:

http://clinton.senate.gov/

[Wneighbor]

Oh man. Gutting a dear that's been dead 3 days in hot weather would be sweet perfume in comparison!

[nicmarlo]

I don't believe that she ever reads any e-mail; her screeners most likely dump it all. I know neither she nor her staff respond to any I've ever sent. The website and e-mail she has is a phony as she.

[B-Cause]

Great graphics - Thanks for posting them.

[Let's Roll]

Omigod - that's why she went over there. I wondered - it was SO out of character.

Even if it were true, no normal person would ever tell troops in a theater of war something like that. The "Americans" questioning the war are hitlery and her lackeys.

[irgbar-man]

Bump to the top o' the charts.

[proud American in Canada]

"You know about this? Sometimes I feel that I'm the only one who read about the Clinton's disusting porno Xmas tree."

I'd heard about this but only here--is that really true? They seriously decorated a Christmas tree with condoms and crack pipes?

Can someone explain what the rationale for that was? I seriously don't get it.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, I doubt the senate will do anything - they'll be their usual spineless selves and say something like, "We don't want to chill the free speech rights of our fellow senators blah blah blah..." or something equally inane and pathetic...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

All I know on this is that her immunity only extends to statements made on the Seante floor. She's forgotten that she represents America, not the other side.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Is Ann Coulter a Constitutional attorney? (I think she is...?)
Maybe someone could get in touch with her and see if there's anything that could be done."

Ashcroft should resign from office and let someone
who isn't afraid to prosecute the klintoons take over.
Ann Coulter would uphold the oath of office.

[ChemistCat]

I always get a form letter via snailmail in response to emails I've sent my (Oklahoma) Senators. They're Republicans, of course. The letters are always vague but at least on the general topic, which means SOMEONE is reading or at least skimming the emails, and making hatch-marks on some list before initiating whichever process generates the more-or-less correct form letter to me.

[Let's Roll]

Campaign finance irregularities in her senate run?

OK, DOJ the gloves are off. Do what you should have done months ago.

[2111USMC]

PING!

[Paul Atreides]

Or: "I like Senator Clinton, she's a very charming person. While I do find her comments unfortunate, blah, blah, blah..."