Sen. Clinton, just because our military occupies ground in Iraq doesn't mean the 'surge' is working

. . . and it's not just because "we're years too late in changing our tactics"


Mon Aug 20, 8:58 PM ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - New military tactics in Iraq are working but the best way to honor U.S. soldiers is "by beginning to bring them home," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told war veterans Monday.

Clinton, seeking the Democratic nomination for president, praised the work that soldiers have done in Iraq but described the government there as "on vacation," leaving American troops in the middle of a sectarian war.

In Iraq, she said, the government must take responsibility for itself and its people.

"I do not think the Iraqis are ready to do what they have to do for themselves yet," she said. "I think it is unacceptable for our troops to be caught in the crossfire of a sectarian civil war while the Iraqi government is on vacation."

Clinton said new tactics have brought some success against insurgents, particularly in Iraq's Anbar province.

"It's working. We're just years too late in changing our tactics," she said. "We can't ever let that happen again. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to keep preparing to fight the new war."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_iraq_6


Even if the Iraqi government comes back -- in whatever form -- it would still be "unacceptable for our troops to be caught in the crossfire of (their) sectarian civil war"

WE BROKE IT.

And Hillary has the UNMITIGATED GALL to declare, "I do not think the Iraqis are ready to do what they have to do for themselves yet,..."????!

Edwards/Kucinich.

She apparently still thinks that the biggest problem with invading Iraq wasn't the decision to invade, but how that invasion was carried out.

If the invasion had been managed well, it would have been a success - hard to argue against that (because it's a big what if, isn't it?). But of course it is hard to argue that the facts after the invasion justified our use of force (no WMDs no terrorist ties).

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it.

She scares the living shit out of me.

"We have to keep preparing to fight the new war"

'The New War'???

especially when they are talking Iran(the new war???)

millions more dead

the repukes would take it away from her in 12.