Hillary to Troops: Support for War Fading

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/29/03 | "With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff"

[thesummerwind]

Moderator note: I know it's going to be tough, but, please watch the calls for violence against this creature.

In a demoralizing message to U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, visiting New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told them that Americans back home are growing increasingly skeptical of President Bush's decision to send them into battle.

Describing two meetings with G.I.s over turkey dinners in Baghdad, Sen. Clinton told reporters later that soldiers wanted to know "how the people at home feel about what we are doing."

Clinton said she told the troops, "Americans are wholeheartedly proud of what you are doing but there are many questions at home about the (Bush) administration's policies."

She also suggested that the U.S. could eventually loose the war in Iraq, contending, "We have to exert all of our efforts militarily, but the outcome is not assured."

Despite her sour pronouncements, the former first lady insisted that the soldiers were just as glad to see her as they were President Bush, whose surprise visit less than 24-hours earlier was greeted with standing ovations.

"It's a positive for the commander-in-chief to visit troops in the field," Clinton told reporters, adding, "the troops [also] seemed to appreciate seeing myself."

Speaking from a secure location just over the Kuwaiti border, Mrs. Clinton launched one verbal salvo after another at the White House, arguing that Bush officials had been "obsessed" with getting Saddam Hussein and saying the perception blinded them to the difficulties of deposing his regime.

"The Pentagon tried to make do with as few troops as possible, as light a footprint as they could get away with," Clinton said. "Now, we're playing catchup . . . Unfortunately, I don't think they fully appreciated the conditions we would encounter."

The top Democrat also reprised her charge that the White House is being less than candid when it comes to apprising the American people of the costs of the war.

"The obstacles and problems here are much greater than the administration usually admits to," she said, adding, "Everybody has to be honest."

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[nicmarlo]

LOL! I know exactly what you wanted to say, budge.....

[Budge]

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[cardinal4]

This thread has to hold the record for deleted posts. This is the first time I have seen such a visceral reaction from a Hillaryism. I just left voice messages on Sens Roberts, Bond and Talent's voice mail. Im little disturbed, however, that these boxes arent full. I guess Ill be using the US Capitol 800 number at work today!

[Redwood71]

"How's this?"

Whereas I appreciate the efforts of someone to correct my sentence structure, sometimes it changes the overall position of the writer. You created a major flaw in your entry:

"it would be welcome from here (but probably unlikely) if she were investigated for the possibility of treason"

Welcome? I don't think so. With all the publicity of the terrorists in the country feeling better justified using their tactics to fight Americans when they feel our troops are lacking support, I don't welcome the investigation, I feel it is required. She knew what she was saying, planned on the speech, and is trying to politicize the war as an attack on Bush to attempt to get him unseated or put a bad taste in the voters' mouths at the next, and next, elections. And she is doing it at the expence of soldier's lives as these people kill to better themselves in addition to harming the infidel (us) actions. You can't reason with them, you can't even talk intelligently with them. Their Bible tells them to kill, period! And they relish in the idea that dying for their beliefs can be better than living them.

Therefore, I didn't want to see anything like "but probably unlikely" in my letter. That can be read as I accept that it will not happen and I will go away if it doesn't.
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Your letter is much prettier than mine, and was well thought out and inked. But, it doesn't get my, not ours, point across with it's obvious flaw from my thinking. I am not a diplomat, just an old, retired, beat up military member that may see things as a little more black and white than you if your more cautious letter is a sound indication of your thoughts. But Hilary's knowingly taken actions are ebony, not even dirty white. (And extremely dangerous as previous media entries have proven) I don't give leeway for that, I demand action. You are a bit more passive than I.

Your letter may get a point across, just the same as the person that was screaming into the phone. Not every person has great grammer skills. But not every scholar has common sense. All kinds of people makes us strong. You do it your way, I'll do it mine. Both are acceptable.

Red




Red

[Teacher317]

"but the thought that she could demoralize some 19 year old kid, putting his life on the line everyday, makes me boiling mad."

bump

[nicmarlo]

I'm just sending e-mails.....the senate.gov site seems to be having a bit of problems, off and on...this may be an indication of a flurry of e-mails going to the server....

[Iconoclast2]

How can we be sure she'd lose in a landslide, after Ashcroft adopted a "nothing to see here, just move along" response to vote fraud?

[TrueBeliever9]

I just got onto without any problem; I selected "Committees"; then, "Armed Services Committee; then, "John Warner (Chairman)" and got the email form without any trouble.

[TrueBeliever9]

www.senate.gov

[nicmarlo]

This thread has to hold the record for deleted posts.

I think you're right. There's always deleted posts on Hitlery threads...but this one has an exceptional number.

[YankeeReb]

My G-d!!! The woman has no shame!!! How she can sit there amongst the troops and tell them that their efforts are wasted is beyond me. In a just world she'd be brought up on charges of treason!!! Could you imagine a senator in 1944 visiting the troops right after Normandy and saying,"...the outcome is far from certian." They'd have her up on charges so fast your head would spin. Could you imagine a republican senator doing the same thing a few years ago in Bosnia while her husband was cavorting in the white house!!!

I'd like to see some clever republican campaign stratigist take all the sound bites from her trip and weave them into an anti-DNC ad. They could also juxtapose her statements with those statements by liberals saying how they're not anti-American, then the caption could be something like "Criticism or treason, you decide".

[cardinal4]

I'd like to see some clever republican campaign stratigist take all the sound bites from her trip and weave them into an anti-DNC ad. They could also juxtapose her statements with those statements by liberals saying how they're not anti-American, then the caption could be something like "Criticism or treason, you decide".

Perfect! Theres just one thing wrong with that idea..the Pubbies are too nice to play hardball.

[wardaddy]

Amen....(i know folks get tired of hearing parents gloat, sorry)

I had planned church this morning but I'm home with the baby who is teething awful and feels mighty puny.

[nicmarlo]

Done with sending every e-mail I possibly could; a few senators did not allow e-mail (Byrd is one, lol):

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REPUBLICANS John Warner (Virginia) Chairman John McCain (Arizona) James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma) Pat Roberts (Kansas) Wayne Allard (Colorado) Jeff Sessions (Alabama) Susan M. Collins (Maine) John Ensign (Nevada) James M. Talent (Missouri) Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) Lindsey O. Graham (South Carolina) Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina) John Cornyn (Texas)

DEMOCRATS Carl Levin (Michigan) Ranking Member Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia) Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut) Jack Reed (Rhode Island) Daniel K. Akaka (Hawaii) Bill Nelson (Florida) E. Benjamin Nelson (Nebraska) Mark Dayton (Minnesota) Evan Bayh (Indiana) Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) Mark Pryor (Arkansas)

[wardaddy]

thanks....great tagline!

[Lady Heron]

Thank goodness for freerepublic. If I had seen her making these comments on TV live, I would be buying a new TV today.

[CT]

Under what atrocity or act of war would Hillary support our troops?

Ooops. Forgot. Hillary and her disgusting husband and fellow traveler comrades are an atrocity. In fact, they are the ones that got us in this mess in the first place.

No doubt Hillary is trying to make her "early" Vietnam-type statement. Well, b*tch, this isn't "your" Vietnam war. And as long as the American people have the good sense to keep you and your other traitorous Rat cowards away from the levers of power, it won't be Vietnam.

As Ann Coulter says, "Democrats cannot be trusted with the security of our nation."