Hillary's Shameful Straddling on Iraq

[SHRED]

Hillary's Shameful Straddling on Iraq
Posted on Jun 20, 2006

By Robert Scheer

How do you triangulate among death, hypocrisy and stupidity? Not at all logically, which is why Hillary Clinton’s dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarrassment not only for her but for anyone who hopes she can provide progressive leadership for the nation. If she has still not found the courage to reverse course on this disastrous war, why assume that as president she would behave any differently?

It is unconscionable that those who can accurately measure the true cost of the Iraq folly in wasted lives and resources — more than 2,500 Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis and hundreds of billions of dollars — dare prefer her to potential 2008 presidential election rivals John Kerry, Al Gore, Russ Feingold and John Edwards, who have all come to speak honestly of this quagmire and our need to extricate ourselves from it.

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“I do not think it is a smart strategy, either, for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government,” said Clinton last week at the “Take Back America” conference. “Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests.”

This is pure gibberish designed to sound reasonable. The Bush administration has pressured the Iraqi government plenty, from trying to place its handpicked intelligence “assets” in power right after seizing Baghdad through the unseemly act of a sitting U.S. president dropping into Iraq last week uninvited and unannounced — a mockery of the claim that we have transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi people.

Continued: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060620_robert_scheer_hillary_iraq/

[acmejack]

1. That's why she will never be president, my Friend!

How you doing this morning, Shred? A tad early out your way, isn't it?

[thepurpose]

2. Could not agree more that she at the very least should not be president

However, I would also like to point out we as a party don't really stand a chance in November if we don't get our act together as an opposition party. I remember as a kid having the phrase "United We Stand Divided We Fall" drilled into me. I'm not trying to say the democrats need to agree in lock step with every decision, plan or policy. But there is a difference in over all governance in my mind and the times when you need to ban together as a whole to achieve a common objective. If we want to win in November and O8 we have to learn to fight together for the common good.

[madrchsod]

3. she`s always been a old school moderate republican

and she`ll never change. i would never vote for her in a thousand years

[acmavm]

4. Dupe. And I wonder if I'm the only one who get crap responses

like this whenever I point out what a nothing dem HC is:

"So not only do you take pleasure in bashing Democrats in government...
You also enjoy mocking your fellow Democrats here at DU!

Why are you here?

From this thread yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2691703