Posted on 02/19/2005 2:30:39 PM PST by gopwinsin04
US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said today in Baghdad that a string of attacks killing more than 50 Iraqis in two days were failed attempts to sow sectarian strife and destablize the country.
Clinton and Sen. John McCain were part of a 5 member congressional delegation that met with US officials and members of Iraq's interim government.
Both Senators Clinton and McCain have historically been strident critics of the Pentagon's planning and management of the war in Iraq. But Clinton said Saturday that the Sunni Muslim insurgents were failing in their efforts to destabilize Iraq through sectarian violence.
Her comments came as numerous insurgent attacks across Iraq killed dozens of people as Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrated their holiest day of the year.
Clinton said insurgents had failed to disrupt Iraq's landmark January 30 elections, won by the Shiite clergy backed ticket.
'Not one polling place was shut down or overrun. The results of this election are a strong rebuke to those who did not believe that the Iraqi people would take this opportunity to demonstrate their own committment to their own future.'
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I was listening to that... She has already started running toward the middle... I wonder when she will come out for privatizing social security and going to church
Immediately after endorsing the death penalty and becomes a member of the NRA.
"BECOMING" a member....
Wrong group to represent U.S., everyone of them. They said absolutly nothing of value.
Fox had "ALERT" on for nearly an hour for the news conferance of the rapist that was caught. They turned off of the Conferance after two minutes. That makes me mad. Does anyone else think so?
Well, thank you Hillary.
Without your wisdom I'd never have figured out they, btw the word is TERRORISTS, were losing. What was your first tip? When the elections were successfully held or when George W. Bush, the only one committed to seeing this through despite your attempts to micro-manage its failure, was re-elected?
I care not a wit what any of you spineless opportunistic , and in some instances traitorous, Senators with a god complex think about the war. You haven't earned the right to be an authority on its success or its failure. Though it is undeniably a success so far.
She is the world's smartest women..doncha know?
I heard her--if I didn't know her kind so well I might have been impressed. She is now all for the war and the establishment of freedom in Iraq. This is what we have to contend with for the next three plus years, she will become so "centrist" that lukewarm and/or naive conservatives will believe her. Plus she didn't say "you know" once during the sound bite I heard. Probably a prepared statement.
Well... I doubt her sincerity as well, but we on the pro-war side have been asking the left to show a united front to the outside world even though we disagree on almost everything. Let's not look gift horses in mouths.
No wonder she fell down the other day, she must be out of breath from all this running to the middle....
Uh, but this "gift horse" has a known forked tongue.
Typical Hillary-- offering up a "duh" statement that the MSM just eats it up like a sundae with hot fudge on top. Ooh, and the timing, classical crass Hillary opportunism at work.
As one who used to affiliate with Dem circles, I can tell you that all this hype about a Hillary nomination is way overrated. She is deeply unpopular with the core of the Democratic Party, she's regularly thrashed over at the Dem blogs and any polls favorable to her so far are only a reflection of name recognition-- Lieberman after all was the "frontrunner" before Johnny K. in 2004 and, I guess you could say he has a nice career in the private sector now.
Hillary has a better shot at the Dem nod than Lieberman did, and she is a contender for it, but a far weaker contender than a lot of Freepers think. Of all the ironies, most Dems seem to agree with most of us these days about her-- she's too unscrupulous and treacherous to be trusted. Even among young single liberal Democratic women she inspires distrust and dislike.
These days the Dems seem to be converging around Barbara Boxer as there nominee, or maybe Evan Bayh or Warner. But Hillary is in no way a frontrunner-- she's already in hot water and getting worse every day.
No.
I give praise only when it is genuine. If she gave a damn about a unified front she'd have read Kennedy the riot act before the Iraqi elections. The only reason she said this is because the elections went off well and she's decided it's safe to be "for" the war. If the the winds swift again she'll be right out there talking down our effort.
This is nothing more than sticking a finger in the air for the current of today. When a Dem actually is willing to show they are serious about putting this country first and brave the bad with the good, than I'll congratulate them. So far the only one currently in the Senate is Joe Leiberman.
Oh, granted. But my attitude upon reading her comments was more along the lines of, "About damn time!" ;-)
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