Posted on 06/17/2005 1:57:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York Senator Hillary Clinton ducked questions yesterday about her colleague Dick Durbin's charge that U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay conducted themselves like "Nazis" - but she did offer Durbin some tactical support by calling for a new probe into prisoner abuse by American GIs.
"I think that there is a lot of reason to be concerned about what's going on there and the unfortunate image that it portrays to the rest of the world about our country and our values, our legal system," Clinton told NBC's "Today" show.
"I would very strongly urge that we appoint an independent commission and that independent commission quickly look into all of these allegations and come up with recommendations," she added.
Later in the day, Clinton was asked specifically about Durbin's "Nazi" characterization of U.S. guards at Guantanamo.
According to the Washington Times, Mrs. Clinton "declined to comment, saying she had not heard Mr. Durbin's speech. When a reporter read the passage to her, she declined again."
Lady this could have been said about the White House EVERY SINGLE DAY from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001, when Arkancide and rape was rampant within the Clintonista regime.
The Today show must be "Spin Central" for Hillary Clinton. Wasn't it on The Today show that she dropped her "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" theory on the nation?
This woman is an abomination. Someone please slap her!
Once a communist, always a communist.
Hitlery doesn't want to spoil her re-election efforts nor her long-term goal of taking the WH in '08 by alienating her twin Durbin (and Dean).
According to the Washington Times, Mrs. Clinton "declined to comment, saying she had not heard Mr. Durbin's speech. When a reporter read the passage to her, she declined again."
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Spineless, she is.
You'd think someone with her bigot's record would seize the opportunity to slap down Holocaust-denier Durbin.
The Democrats sure are concerned with what the world thinks of the US.
I could give a proverbial tinkers damm about what any of them think. In fact it could easily be a barometer of right thinking to see just how quickly and noisily the rest of the planet denounced US actions.
Quicker and Louder means you are on the right path.
Maybe they could both do about a month's worth of TDY in Gitmo and check things out personally. Get some XXL fatigues and head on down.
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that's a mouthful in and of itself.. is she talking about hers and hubby's own legal issues and how they skate when others FRy?? lol
That's what it sounded like to me.
Hillary chooses to cower while focus polls are conducted and her collegues slanders the troops she DARES to seek to lead.
Senator Clinton can join Durbin in pergatory.
Indeed it was ~ she first used this "vast right wing conspiracy" claim while attempting to explain the Monica Lewinsky "rumors" to Matt Lauer during a January 1998 "damage control" appearance on NBC's Today show.
Perhaps even more important, this was the interview in which she also said, in response to Lauer's question "If an American President had an adulterous liaison in the White House and lied to cover it up, should the American people ask for his resignation?" "Well, they should certainly be concerned about it."
Lauer: "Should they ask for his resignation?"
Clinton: "Well, I think that if all that were proven true, I think that would be a very serious offense. That is not going to be proven true."
It is truly amazing how the "vast right wing conspiracy" comment was the comment from this interview that was embraced as truth and given a life of it's own, while the "Well, they should certainly be concerned about it." "... if all that were proven true, I think that would be a very serious offense" comments went virtually unacknowledged and unreferenced during the entire impeachment process.
It is almost laughable to hear her use the phrase, "I think that there is a lot of reason to be concerned about what's going on there" again in this context.
Yeah, I remember when the Republicans ran all those Clinton scandal commercials against Gore in 2000 too. < /Sarcasm >
Hillary must think the American people are either 1) stupid, and/or 2) have a short memory, because her reference to "there is a lot of reason to be concerned about what's going on there [in the White House]" is indeed laughable. At least she's betting the farm on the assumption that the American people are that stupid and short-memoried.
Yeah, not to mention how the Republicans, on the heels of Clinton's "Year of Monica" wiped out the Democrats in the 1998 mid-term elections (NOT!).
Not so much spineless as in agreement with Durbin, I think.
She can run but she can't hide, she supports Durbin.
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