Posted on 07/19/2007 10:55:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pentagon slams Clinton on Iraq
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago
The Pentagon has issued a stinging rebuke to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing that she is boosting enemy propaganda by asking how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq.
Under Secretary of Defense Eric Edelman wrote a biting reply to questions Clinton raised in May, urging the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.
He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."
Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has privately and publicly pushed Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace two months ago to begin drafting the plans for what she said will be a complicated withdrawal of troops, trucks and equipment.
"If we're not planning for it, it will be difficult to execute it in a safe and efficacious way," she said then.
Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called the response "at once outrageous and dangerous."
"Redeploying out of Iraq with the same combination of arrogance and incompetence with which the Bush administration deployed our young men and women into Iraq is completely unacceptable, and our troops deserve far better," said Reines, who said military leaders should offer a withdrawal plan rather than "a political plan to attack those who question them."
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So help me that picture is of my ex mother in law.
Like she gives a damn.
Portrait of a Prick-Head.
When the Pentagon issues papers defending itself from members of Congress you know things in Congress are pretty bad.
Commander of Nothing Clinton can best support the troops by shutting the hell up.
I am loving this!
Her heinousness’s spokesman says that the Pentagon is showing arrogance similar to that they showed when sending our troops into Iraq originally.
DUH. Hillary was totally FOR the war. How arrogant is Hillary, then??
Now something has changed either at the Pentagon or in the administration or both. They wouldn’t have had the guts to say this not too long ago. I say let’s have more of the same. This is indeed a national security issue and they have every right to treat it as one and shove it back in her face.
“If they want to withdrawal and retreat, they have to develop a plan for it and take responsibility for it.”
What the Dems need to admit is that retreat will lead to genocide and that they are wishing this on the Iraqi nation.
I just stole your picture.
FR is a living, breathing exchange of cool pics!
“as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Edelman wrote.”
Oh, that is SWEET...Somalia was CLINTON’S.
Sure she is, to a country that no longer exists.
Hint: it lowered its flag for the last time in its national capital on Christmas Day, 1991.
How can anyone expect to become Commander-In-Chief of our nation's armed forces after voting AGAINST funding our troops while they are engaged in war?
Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS...EVER...book it!
take that she-devil!
Does not deserve what? My comment, or the hot babe in the pic? If he is able to attract something like you show, what in the World is he doing working as a spokesman for the Wicked Witch of NY???? Or, as Don Imus said, that “Fat Satan”.
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