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Pentagon slams Clinton on Iraq
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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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; democrats; hillary; iraq; wot
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

So help me that picture is of my ex mother in law.


21 posted on 07/19/2007 11:21:09 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Sub-Driver

Like she gives a damn.


22 posted on 07/19/2007 11:24:42 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

Portrait of a Prick-Head.


23 posted on 07/19/2007 11:30:38 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: 3AngelaD
Send him AND his boss a white flag.


24 posted on 07/19/2007 11:33:42 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Stop the invasion. Secure the borders now.)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred
Tha pic is an insult to the cholla cactus that live in my back yard!
25 posted on 07/19/2007 11:41:45 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


26 posted on 07/19/2007 11:52:24 AM PDT by navyguy (tax)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


27 posted on 07/19/2007 11:55:34 AM PDT by txrangerette (Congressman Duncan Hunter for POTUS...check him out!!)
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To: elfman2

“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.


28 posted on 07/19/2007 12:28:50 PM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: Sub-Driver
ALL Democrats MUST secure a U.S. Defeat in Iraq, as they may gain more power through (perceived) Republican Bungling which will allow them to place their Ideology firmly in America by controlling the courts (by gaining the White House)....namely the Supreme Court
29 posted on 07/19/2007 12:38:32 PM PDT by PEACE ENFORCER (The U.S. Constitution has been Reduced to a Meaningless Document.)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

I just stole your picture.


30 posted on 07/19/2007 12:40:51 PM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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To: Sub-Driver
Covered this a few days ago at Beyond the Cusp in an article titled Iraq; If We Pullout, Then What?

Thank you for visiting,
Brian Saunders
31 posted on 07/19/2007 12:49:38 PM PDT by bsaunders
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To: Kaslin
I just stole your picture.

FR is a living, breathing exchange of cool pics!

32 posted on 07/19/2007 12:58:39 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Churchillspirit

“as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Edelman wrote.”

Oh, that is SWEET...Somalia was CLINTON’S.


33 posted on 07/19/2007 1:03:15 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Churchillspirit
A patriot she ain't.

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.

34 posted on 07/19/2007 1:13:28 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Correct me if I am wrong..............but, didn't derSlickmeister's woman vote AGAINST funding our troops several weeks ago...........while they are at war, overseas, fighting for their lives and the lives of others, in a war zone, under attack...................

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?

35 posted on 07/19/2007 2:03:30 PM PDT by AwesomePossum
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To: Sub-Driver
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LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
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36 posted on 07/19/2007 3:05:40 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS...EVER...book it!


37 posted on 07/19/2007 4:03:31 PM PDT by TampaDude (Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.)
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To: Sub-Driver

take that she-devil!


38 posted on 07/19/2007 5:49:49 PM PDT by finnman69 (May Paris Hilton's plane crash into Britney Spears house while Lindsey Lohan is over doing coke)
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To: astounded

Philippe Reines...does not deserve that
39 posted on 07/19/2007 5:57:17 PM PDT by finnman69 (May Paris Hilton's plane crash into Britney Spears house while Lindsey Lohan is over doing coke)
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To: finnman69

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”.


40 posted on 07/20/2007 6:13:35 AM PDT by astounded
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