http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060613103109990014&ncid=NWS00010000000001Hillary Clinton Faces Anti-War Critics
Clinton, Kerry Defend Positions on Iraq at Liberal Event
By DEVLIN BARRETT, AP
WASHINGTON (June 13) - Democrats' disagreements over Iraq were on clear display Tuesday as potential presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry gave their versions to an emotional audience of party liberals.
Anti-war activists in the "Take Back America" crowd booed Clinton for opposing a withdrawal date for U.S. troops, an approach pushed by Kerry and cheered by the crowd.
"Sometimes this is a difficult conversation, in part because this administration has made our world more dangerous than it should be," she said.
Kerry, who was widely criticized as the party's standard-bearer in 2004 for being too cautious in his criticism of the war, said Tuesday that politicians "cannot have it both ways."
In remarks that could have been aimed at Clinton, Kerry said: "It's not enough to argue with the logistics or to argue about the details. ... It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake. ... It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution."
Kerry's speech featured some of his strongest comments to date, including a call to "end a war in Iraq that weakens the nation each and every day it goes on."
That last sentence tells me how stupid our press is. His "strongest comments to date" were uttered back in April in Boston.