Hillary: 'Right Wing Apparatus' to Blame for Troop Comment Firestorm (Pretty in Pink Princess Spews)

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/7/2003 | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[PeteFromMontana]

Hillary: 'Right Wing Apparatus' to Blame for Troop Comment Firestorm

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she was right to tell U.S. troops that Americans back home were starting to doubt President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, calling complaints that her comments undermined military morale "the latest flaming charge by the right wing."

"Let me correct the record. It didn't happen," Clinton told CBS's "Face the Nation." "I know that's the latest flaming charge by the right wing, but that's not what happened."

The top Democrat claimed instead that she was merely responding truthfully to a question from a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division when she told him, "There are questions being raised about the administration's policies."

Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton blamed a "right wing apparatus" for the firestorm over her remarks.

"You know, I find it so interesting that this has now become an issue, largely fueled by a lot of the talk shows and the other sort of right wing apparatus."

"What I said is what I believe," the top Democrat added.

"These young men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, they're on the internet, they get the media, they know very well there is a debate about our policies," she explained, overlooking persistent reports that troops are concerned over distorted press coverage of their mission in Iraq.

But Sen. Clinton insisted, "From my perspective, it is fully appropriate in talking with our soldiers to have that kind of conversation with them."

Her defense prompted "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert to ask, "But if someone suggests you're undercutting morale by criticizing the commander in chief to these soldiers in Iraq, it doesn't trouble you?"

"Well, I don't think that's what I did," Clinton shot back.

"First of all, from my perspective, answering a direct question by an American soldier who knows very well that in previous conflicts in our country we didn't always support our troops" was the right thing to do.

The top Democrat then accused the Bush administration of not supporting the troops with adequate supplies, complaining, "We haven't given them enough body armor. We didn't give them enough armored Humvees. We didn't do what was necessary to give our men and women on the ground the full support that they deserve."

[PeteFromMontana]

Congratulations Fellow Freepers, we are now a part of an Apparatus!

[EggsAckley]

Hey, Hillary,

S.T.F.U.

[Maria S]

Does that mean I'm an apparatchik? (or something like that?!?)

[Blue Collar Christian]

We've been a part of the apparatus for a long time. If not for people like us, we wouldn't even be in Iraq or Afghanistan. We'd just be mopping up another mess from a terrorist attack. We're a bad lot, we are.

[prairiebreeze]

CYA as hard and fast as you can, Hill. Doesn't matter because it's still hanging out there for all to see...

Prairie

[spodefly]

VRWC BUMP.

[eastforker]

What I wanna know is why newsmax and other media refer to the beast as "top democrat".I get so infuriated when I read those words.

[randog]

Funny, she blames everyone for taking her comment out of context but she never explains the context or situation in which she made that comment. She's guilty.

[JoJo Gunn]

"First of all, from my perspective, answering a direct question by an American soldier who knows very well that in previous conflicts in our country we didn't always support our troops" was the right thing to do.

That not so subtle reference to Vietnam was courtesy of the vast Left Wing apparatus. Reckon she'd admit to that?

[FormerACLUmember]

Free speech and the tiny honest news reporting agencies are SO VERY inconvenient, aren't they Hillary, you lying, neo-Stalinist, manipulative, shrill, obnoxious, deceitful, trecherous, destructive, hateful, power-mad, dishonest, corrupt, bribe-taking, bribe-giving, traitorous, anti-American, divisive Uber-Shyster!!

[squidly]

When did we morph from a conspiracy into an apparatus?

[Blue Collar Christian]

Maybe she is the top Democrat, she's still lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut.

[PhiKapMom]

Truthfully or any version of the word truth coming out of Hillary's mouth is as hypocritical (definition of hypocrite: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue) as you can get. She wouldn't know the meaning of the worth truth if it hit her in the face!

Has that woman ever taken personal responsibility for anything? Who whole mantra is that it is always the right wings fault!

She can stuff her words like she stuffed her mouth of the Thanksgiving Day Dinner after making the troops wait for her highness!

Anyone know if she was fed the questions ahead of each of the interviews -- my bet is yes! She never takes questions that she hasn't been given so I doubt if this is the first!

[dread78645]

Doesn't matter because it's still hanging out there for all to see...

Bad visual, dude.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Stop holding back and tell us how you really feel.

[battousai]

So is this the same Vast Right Wing Cons..., um, Apparatus that got her hubby's stogie smoked in the oval ofice?

[PeteFromMontana]

If you watched her today you may have noticed the way she could not look Russert in the eye. Very disingenuous womyn.

[putupon]

CYA as hard and fast as you can, Hill. Doesn't matter because it's still hanging out there for all to see...

and it ain't pretty.

[DakotaGator]

"What I said is what I believe," the top Democrat added.

And that's what makes it treason!

[Blue Collar Christian]

That's just plain ugly, you apparatdude.