She’s a little more brazen, actually, repeats the “no military solution” talking point, we need more diplomacy.
Schieffer: Will you set a date?
Hillary starts her dance... hard to follow her line of thought since she starts talking about I voted for the setting of a date but I think there will be continuing missions. Says “clearer” is better. Plays the civil war card— militias fighting with each other.
Holy cow, this woman can ramble.
Schieffer asks yet another Iraq question. Do they need 100,000 troops and for how long?
Hillary: Says no at first, but... we’ll assess the situation and go from there, changes her answer to “I don’t know.”
Schieffer still stuck on Iraq. Hillary blames Bush for “emboldening the enemies” and says setting a timeline wouldn’t do that. She brings up Iran and Syria. Brings up a report of an Israeli attack on Syria (for some reason, I thought that story was disproven, but I could be wrong).
Reliable Sources is having a segment on the Rather Suit:
Commentary: Hartman (former exec of CBS) says the suit makes him sad. He thinks its not about the money but he thinks its about Dan trying to vindicate himself but there is no vindication.
Laura Ingraham: Rather admitted he was a victim of his own story and she thinks its sad also. She mentioned freerepublic.com as the internet place that originally broke the false documentation news; she also mentioned little green footballs. She said the new media and blogosphere blew the lid off the story and Dan is arrogant and absurd by suing.
David Zurawik (teaches media ethics?) agrees it is also very sad and says the lawsuit further shreds his credibility. He talks about the apology (Howie shows the apology) about failure scrutinizing the documents and that he personally apologizes.
Laura talks about how laughable it was that Rather now says the reason the story was trashed was to appease President Bush. She says that is absurd on its face.
The longer the answer the fewer questions they can ask during the given time frame.