Will sombody please put this Surrender Monkey back in her cage?
---PLEASE!!
Posted on 08/04/2006 11:29:31 AM PDT by yoe
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she said was a “failed policy” in Iraq.
“I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late,” the New York Democrat told the Associated Press.
“I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.”
Clinton confronted Rumsfeld directly on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier in the day, and said his answers left her convinced he should go.
“The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people. It's time for him to step down and be replaced by someone who can develop an effective strategy and communicate it effectively to the American people and to the world.”
For months, Clinton has resisted joining the chorus of other Democrats demanding Rumsfeld's ouster. Her remarks Thursday were the harshest assessment yet from the woman considered her party's early front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination.
The former first lady has come under attack from some in her own party for her 2002 vote for the war and her current opposition to a deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.
“I am frankly tired of hearing the same stories from the administration's national security team,” Clinton told the AP. “The president changed his economic team, he changed his White House team - I think it's time for him to change his security and defense team.”
Clinton said her own view of the war has not changed.
“What's been clear is that despite my being a constant and persistent critic of how the president has conducted the war, it has not achieved the goals that he has set,” she said.
Earlier in the day, the senator wasted no time going after Rumsfeld when he testified in a morning hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Under your leadership there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are,” the New York Democrat said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “We have a full-fledged insurgency and full-blown sectarian conflict in Iraq.”
The defense secretary seemed briefly stunned by the intensity of her attack, exclaiming, “My goodness,” before launching into a point-by-point defense.
He rejected some of her specific criticisms as simply wrong and said the war against terror will be a drawn-out process.
“Are there setbacks? Yes,” said Rumsfeld. “Is this problem going to get solved in the near term? I think it's going to take some time.”
The testy exchange between Clinton and Rumsfeld came after a top general told the panel violence in Iraq is probably as bad as he's ever seen it and the country may be descending into civil war.
“We hear a lot of happy talk and rosy scenarios, but because of the administration's strategic blunders - and frankly the record of incompetence in executing - you are presiding over a failed policy,” she said. “Given your track record, Secretary Rumsfeld, why should we believe your assurances now?”
Rumsfeld vehemently denied he'd ever glossed over the difficulties of the fighting in Iraq or elsewhere.
“There's a track record here,” countered Clinton. “This is not 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, when you appeared before this committee and made many comments and presented many assurances that have frankly proven to be unfulfilled.”
“Senator, I don't think that's true,” Rumsfeld fired back. “I have never painted a rosy picture. I've been very measured in my words and you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic. I understand this is tough stuff.”
At that point, the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. John Warner of Virginia, came to Rumsfeld's defense, saying his past comments had been balanced.
Clinton still shied away from a demand made by a growing number of Democrats: a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq.
The disagreement between the two extended to Afghanistan. The senator specifically faulted Rumsfeld for saying in 2002 that the Taliban was gone, noting that the extremist faction has grown stronger in recent months.
He conceded violence has escalated in Afghanistan, but added, “Does that represent failed policy? I don't know. I would say not.”
The defense secretary said he expected the violence there to follow a seasonal pattern and decline as winter approaches.
Does the Senate (never mind an individual Senator) have the power to require the resignation of a Cabinet officer or other equivalent rank?
Pray that God's hand of mercy will continue to rest upon this nation, and that this spawn of Satan will be crushed in '08.
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Now all ya’ll be niiiiice ‘ya hear…………..
A big AMEN to that! My contempt for the Hildebeast and her traitorous ways leaves me almost speechless.
Will sombody please put this Surrender Monkey back in her cage?
---PLEASE!!
I would vote for ANYONE other than Miss Hillary. Including an orangutan.
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Yes, the orangutan is much more itelligent, better looking, and better qualified to be President and C-in-C. I also think you would have a difficult time finding a Marxist monkey too.
I've got a really filthy Hildabeast limerick...
Wanna hear it?
Yes? Well, OK! *****twist my arm!*****
A cankled old skank from Chappaqua
Said, "As a dog likes a big, juicy bone to gnaw,
..I like my pudenda
..Rubbed hard by the end o'
The little pink nose of my daughta."
Ooooohh!
For brevity the AP cut her follow-up statement from the story. During the interview Mrs. Clinton continued: "Why, when we were in office our guys were putting out a brand new story every month!"
Will sombody please put this Surrender Monkey back in her cage?
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Outstanding picture that does her justice. Hard to find a good picture of her without her tunig on with the red star on it...
I keep oysters. Does that count?
Why can a Senator or Congressman run for POTUS while still serving an unfinished term in office? Who would want an elected that will spend all their time running for the next office? Dumb question......she hasn't stopped running for the Oval Office since she left Arkansas.
I would buy enormous amounts of stock in the pharmaceutical company that came up with a cure for the Clinton Plague.
"Reading between the lines here but it seems like she wants us to finish the job in Iraq."
There would be no excuses for her if the job was finished before 2008. If she won the presidency in 2008 and pulled US forces as soon as she got in and there was a Republican majority, she wouldn't last a week.
Bad, bad, bad!!!!
BTW - This whole thing has been the AP working hand in glove with the dems.
After all the pretense about being `moderate, the Beast is now desperately veering left. It's almost funny to see her pandering to the Dean crowd.
hillary and her daft left wing conspiracy
IMO the only thing that can hand power to this witch in the future is the Republican folks not working hard to make sure people understand what a dysfunctional witch this woman is.
Would women take pride in a woman who seemed to know about multiple women who were having relationships and sex with her husband for decades? Do they want a victim President? Is allowing numerous women to be boinking her husband considered the kind of leadership skills we want to have in any President?
Would anyone love how she handled trying to get government employees falsely jailed in the travel office fiasco?
Would they want to hire Hillary for President if they were aware of how her husband gave the Chinese the ability to fix their rockets and also gave them new guidance systems so they for the first time reach and nuke any city in the USA?
Can the people really handle hearing her speak for any length of time without wishing they had cotton in their ears?
Was anyone really fans of Hillary's attempt to destroy a seventh of the US economy in trying to create socialized medicine through the government to ruin the best medical care in the world?
Would her possible voters like her husband's Echelon program where the Clinton administration was spying on just about everyone?
If we educate the voters in commercials, what chance does Hillary have?
If we let all this information slide by regarding Hillary in the 2008 election, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Tasini on the left and Spencer on the right: the old nondishwasher and non-bed-partner of the former president has a tightwalking job right now. I can just imagine the brilliant consultant who came up with this fancy step.
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I liked the way Rummy began his response to her with something like "In responding to your prepared statement..."
Apparently the world's smartest woman doesn't know or care enough about the subject matter to speak from memory.
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Rummy said something even before that. Once the HildeBeast finished ranting and gave the floor to Rummy... Rummy looked at her with disgust and said... "Oh boy!"
Then he said "In responding to your prepared statement..."
Rummy is too cool!
I don't know, maybe we should as nopardons. She's a very claming influence.
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