Posted on 02/18/2007 6:33:48 AM PST by Flavius
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a 90-day deadline to start pulling American troops from Iraq.
Future Commander in Chief - harbinger of things to come.
Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, has been criticized by some Democrats for supporting authorization of the war in 2002 and for not renouncing her vote as she seeks the U.S. presidency in next year's election.
Now it's time to say the redeployment should start in 90 days or the Congress will revoke authorization for this war," the New York senator said in a video on her campaign Web site, repeating a point included in a bill she introduced on Friday.
In October 2002, Congress authorized President George W. Bush to take military action in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
Republicans blocked the Senate on Saturday from considering a nonbinding measure, adopted on Friday by the House of Representatives, denouncing Bush's decision to send another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq.
In offering what she called a roadmap out of Iraq, Clinton said a visit there last month had made her more determined to start what she called a long overdue withdrawal.
Clinton's bill would cap the number of troops in Iraq at the Jan. 1 level, prior to Bush's decision to add 21,500 to the approximately 130,000 soldiers already there.
The buildup is part of a push to quell growing sectarian violence but comes as opinion polls show the majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's decision to send more troops.
Clinton's bill would require congressional authorization to exceed her proposed cap on U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Bush, announcing the troop increase on Jan. 11, said stepping back prematurely would collapse the Iraqi government, tear the country apart "and result in mass killings on an unimaginable scale."
"If George Bush doesn't end the war before he leaves office, when I'm president, I will," Clinton said in the video.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said last week it was unclear how Clinton planned to end the conflict. Obama has called for a phased withdrawal to be wrapped up by the end of March 2008.
At a Jan. 17 news conference after visiting Iraq, Clinton repeated her call for a phased redeployment as a way of pressing the Iraqi government to shoulder more responsibility for security. But she stopped short then of proposing a deadline for doing so.
Copyright © 2006 Reuters
Come on Dems, you can do better. Do I hear 89 days?
Look at these two adjacent topics!
There's one thing that scares the Democrats more than all else, and that's an American victory in the WOT.
Answer: Hilary's political advisors told her a call for "immediate" withdrawal would scare voters. So they dummied it up with a preposterous 3 month deadline.
By letting the dems swing further and further left without rebuke, the GOP leaders were dooming us to a far left government when the dems take over. The nightmare is just about upon us.
Bush could humiliate the dems if he would go to the American people and declare how wrong and radical the dems are behaving. But he won't do it.
An image comes to mind of a crazed airline passenger trying to wrestle the controls away from the pilot.
Sorry Demoncraps! Good NEWS FROM IRAQ.
Go ballistic you sorry SOBs! (Troops OUT in 90 days!!! Hair Spray on Special at Greewalls. Pick up your PIZZA HUT coupon today......real great thinking you got there.)
An ungrateful nation watches you DEMONCRAPPERS and plans your electoral demise, as you hang yourselves on Karl Roves Rope.
It is a time for celebration PUBBIES. Break out the vintages.
The Dems AND the whole MSM are now wallowing in their own garbage and effluvia, and Americans watch in SHAME and HORROR as thier Dem representatives go absolutely whacko over good news from Iraq.
President Bush has tried to fight this war, from the get-go, on the political cheap and this is where we are today.
The war, itself a valid effort in the interests of the security of Americans and America, being treated like a political question. The disloyalty and selfishness of the democrats is at a level I have only previously associated with people in a banana republic.
If the President doesn't finally grow a pair and slap these people down when they make their big move then there's going to be some trouble in America.
This is nothing less than Constitutional order breaking down.
She is talking out her @ss as usual. We have until August. At the rate they are cleaning out the critters over there, I wouldn't be suprised if things aren't zipped up by summer.
She will self-destruct within 90 days.
Too soon Hill baby. Save it for later on in the election cycle.
A Hiraly, You forget the rittle matter of an erection! ( Quote from Kim Jong Il, Hillary's new Korean fren')
Hillery, You Blond Boffo!You are less electable than John Kerry was in 2004.
No one will take you seriously after today. You got only 90 days of PMS, or Menopausic " Hot Frashes!"
A warning, Hillary, You had the chance to take the High Road and become a patriotic protector of America. Instead you folded, and now you will never become POTUS. Too bad gurl. Maybe next lifetime.
The only hopes the dems have is in a certain man from Connecticut by the name of Leibermann. The rest of the Dim field is certifiably whacko.
Right on. The real story, which the press has totally missed, of course, is not the "surge", but the change in leadership and the resultant overhaul of strategy. With GEN Petreus and COLs McMaster and Mansoor running the show, I'm optimistic for the first time in a while.
Perhaps this is why his approval has fallen into the twenties or whatever; because he won't stand up to an attack. I'm tired of his obsequious behavior toward the Dems. He has become his father.
Putting lipstick on a pig is the picture caption. Hillary was born in the year of the pig and failure is what she can expect. Go away Hillary, you are not a leader, you are not qualified to be President, you have no common sense you are simply a common person with back alley morals and a sense of entitlement from living off your husband's career.
Having you as POTUS would make George Soros happy but never any patriotic American, you are stupid and unqualified. You and Pelosi are both living in a world of your own, phoney, dangerous and cunning with no one's welfare in mind except your own self absorption and intense desire to be class president. Silly women both and very destructive to American values.
Go away Hillary, you are not going to win, that I can almost assure you, keep trying though, we love to see people like you to self destruct.
If the devil came up to Hillary and said he would make her president if she sold Chelsea into slavery, Hillary would have the deal done the same day.
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