RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be "a big mistake."Say what? I thought Senator Clinton disagreed with the Bush Administration on the whole Iraq war.
Well, she does:
"It will matter to us if Iraq totally collapses into civil war, if it becomes a failed state the way Afghanistan was, where terrorists are free to basically set up camp and launch attacks against us," she said.Or does she?
At the same time, Clinton said the Bush administration's pledge to stay in Iraq "until the job is done" amounts to giving the Iraqis "an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves."Now wait a minute, I'm confused. Which is it? Is Senator Clinton FOR our actions in Iraq or AGAINST our actions thus wanting the US to pull out. Wait a minute, the end of the article....what's that?
Clinton, who is running for re-election to the Senate and is seen as a likely presidential candidate in 2008, suggested that the United States wait for Iraq's Dec. 15 elections for an indication about how soon the Iraqis can take over.Ohhhhh, now I get it. Senator Clinton is pulling plays from her husband's playbook. She's not quite sure which position to take until she sees which way the wind is blowing. So watch the news. Depending on the results of the Iraqi election in December, and depending on how the press reacts to that AND DEPENDING on how Senator Clinton can use if for her eventual Presidential bid, we should eventually know where she stands....maybe.
"Until they vote for a government, I don't know that we will have adequate information about how prepared they are," she said.
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It's a little more involved than just the way the wind blows.
Remember, Senator Clinton and President Clinton are playing the American people. They are playing the good cop/bad cop routine. In order to have some semblance of being a moderate, Senator Clinton has to look like a war hawk. She has to be pro-war (or at least look like she is pro-war).
On the other hand, President Clinton goes to Dubai and bashes the war effort. But remember, that the Clintons are really a team and the American people really know this. It's really sad the way they are trying to play us.
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