Sen. Clinton Says Iraq Insurgents Failing

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4812578,00.html

"..BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday a string of attacks killing more than 50 Iraqis in two days were failed attempts to sow sectarian strife and destabilize the country.

Clinton, a New York Democrat, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., were part of a five-member congressional delegation that met with U.S. officials and members of Iraq's interim government.

Both Clinton and McCain have been strident critics of the Pentagon's planning and management of the war in Iraq. But Clinton said Saturday that Sunni Muslim insurgents were failing in their efforts to destabilize Iraq through sectarian violence.

Her comments came as numerous suicide bombings and other insurgent attacks across Iraq killed dozens of people, Iraqi officials said, as Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrated their holiest day of the year. A U.S. soldier was among those killed in the attacks, the military said.

On Friday, insurgents staged five attacks killing at least 36 people and Shiites blamed radical Sunni Muslim insurgents for attacking them in a string of bombings, shootings and kidnappings."

IMHO this is another instance of H. Clinton acting as Joe Liberman's proxy by mouthing lies advanced by the administration. The facts on the ground in Iraq are clearly opposite to how she's spinning them. Maybe she's got some kind of "deal" with the repubes so they won't steal the election quite as obliquely next time if she agrees to be their pet monkey for a few years.

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