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Clinton's Preemptive Strike on Bush Speech

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September 12, 2007 1:38 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: After receiving the endorsement from the National Association of Letter Carriers, Democratic frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton (p)responded to President Bush's scheduled address to the nation tomorrow saying the country doesn't "need another mission accomplished moment."

"We need honesty and candor and honesty and candor that demands that you announce that you will start bringing home troops now," said Clinton.

Clinton also charged that the president is taking credit for bringing 30,000 troops home which she contends would have happened anyway to avoid extending army deployments beyond 15 months: "That is simply too little too late in fact it is misleading."

Clinton continued: "Taking credit for this troop reduction is like taking credit for the sun coming up in the morning."

Senator Clinton has also sent a letter to President Bush in which she describes his plan as "unacceptable to this Congress, and to the American people who have made clear their strong desire to bring our troops home, and end this war."

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Clinton is lame,bash,bash,bash.Is that all you know how to do...? Same old crap.

Posted by: CINDY | Sep 12, 2007 2:17:49 PM

When will Hillary, Obama, and the other Senate Democrats be held accountable for voting to confirm Gen. Petraeus back in January?

Posted by: can't MoveOn | Sep 12, 2007 2:29:43 PM

The Clinton's,the Democrate's and the misleading liberal media has done enough damage to the american people. The Clinton's failed to capture Bin laden in the 90's even when Sudanese goverment decided to hand him over to the U.S. goverment. The Clinton administration refused and that resulted into 9/11. Since Al-Queda was testing nerve gas on stray dogs they were looking for WMD and who was crazy enough to give them WMD Saddam Hussien. Thank god President Bush saved America.

Posted by: Larry Thompson | Sep 12, 2007 2:38:50 PM

When are you neo-cons going open you eyes and see what the hell is going on.

George & Dick just want to hold on to this was until they leave office. After all they control the Carlye Group & Hailliburton, both are makeing MILLIONS of dollars each year.

WAKE UP and smell the roses.

Posted by: Gerald E. Hackworth | Sep 12, 2007 2:47:03 PM

Well Cindy, the most effective way to deal with a stuffed pinata is to bash, bash, bash. Pinatas can`t think and don`t listen to reason.

Posted by: A Viet Nam Vet | Sep 12, 2007 3:46:49 PM

HIllery Can't run Bill How in the hell is she going to run the country. Give me a break

Posted by: jerry kincaid | Sep 12, 2007 4:34:45 PM

Bill was never responsible for anything why should she be

Posted by: jerry kincaid | Sep 12, 2007 4:36:26 PM

I think that those people that are continually complaining about the troop movements and whether the "surge" is working have forgotten how this all got to where it is. They seem to have forgotten that Bill Cliton desimated the military in his eight years as president. Imagine what we could be doing right now with the 300,000 military clinton had decided he didn't need. And that during his administration Clinton had more military deployed to more places than any president since the vietnam war while he was reducing the military.

Posted by: C W | Sep 12, 2007 4:44:18 PM

It would be nice to read the comments after an article containing Sen. Clinton's statements and have the responses be to Sen. Clinton's words. If commenters can't reasonably and logically point to the flaws in Sen. Clinton's statements, but resort instead to vitriol and invective, then readers must assume their opposition is motivated by the kind of blind, unreasoning hatred that has no place in political debate.

Posted by: dawn | Sep 12, 2007 5:13:20 PM

Barack is the only leader we need within 100 miles of the White House. Any other President and we are doomed.

Posted by: dubby | Sep 12, 2007 5:35:39 PM

Hillary is going to fall from our radar. She is in deep denial, but violations of campaign finance laws should suck her right out of the race.

Knowing that she offered to give up 23k, and now 180k, isnt enough to white wash her corruption. Its the same trash that Billy Clinton pulled, and now its exposed.

GET THE CHINESE OUT OF AMERICAN POLITICS-Dump the Hill!!

Posted by: pwrslm | Sep 12, 2007 10:50:08 PM

What is everyone so upset about. 9/11 changed this country. Clinton supported the war because everyone support the war at one point. But things have changed. The war has moved in the wrong direction. We started to get Bin lauden. We haven't done so and now we have more troops in Iraq then Afghanistan. We need to refocus our efforts. Get back to the job at hand. Get Binlauden, get out of Iraq, and get our troops home safly. Now! Wheather it's Clinton or Obama, someone has to step up and get it done. Stop taking and get it done!

Posted by: Whatever | Sep 12, 2007 11:17:36 PM

I LOVE this, we're right because we think you are MORE wrong. LOL. Who was responsible for the government intelligence the day before 9-11. That's who should be removed.

Posted by: able | Sep 13, 2007 6:44:11 AM

There goes 'Queen' Hillary... I guess she and a bunch of lefty pols in congress know more about running our troops than the decorated 4-star general who's out in the battlefield that she and 49 other Dems confirmed. Aww...poor Hillary...poor Dems. Patreaus' message of progress in Iraq is bad news for her & her fellow Dems, because they WANT us to lose Iraq after saying we couldn't win there. So now she's spewing America-hating-Moveon.org-appeasing-anti-Iraq war venom after consistently voicing support for the war she voted for in 2002 before-she was-against-it-running-for-president (hmmm--- sound's like 2008's John Kerry redux). WAKE UP PPL!!! - Shes SO predictable, changing her position from hawkish to anti-war like Kerry did to secure Moveon.org campaign funds, then when general election time comes, she'll start to sound hawkish again to try to fool Red-state voters into believing she's not the lefty kook she really is. I'm SURE Al-Queda will be just be shaking in fear of HER (NOT!)... GOD HELP US if she or any of those other weakling Dem bozos get elected... In this post-9/11 age, we need people in office that the terrorists will fear, not a bunch of 60's flower children...RUDY IN '08!!!

Posted by: cec | Sep 13, 2007 11:27:40 AM

When is queen hillary and the other democrat fascists gonna be held acountable for the filth they say.I'm a combat vet and it makes me sick, to hear these people who never wore the uniform and defended this country to criticize our men and women in uniform,just when is someone gonna say enough already,,bill clinton was a draft dodger and what experience in military matters does queen hillary have.Not 1minute thats how much..My dog has more time on a military base than either of them or any democrat has

Posted by: John | Sep 13, 2007 6:51:48 PM

Remember the rescindment of the fairness doctrine by Ronald Reagan? Please don't trot out the liberal media bologna, it's just not true period. Wake up!

Posted by: Sandra Lea | Sep 13, 2007 7:25:59 PM

The "war on terror" is a complete fraud and represent the largest bank (US Treasury) heist in world history.

Terrorism is a tactic, it is not an enemy that can be defeated.

Hillary's support for the "war on terror" demonstrates her unfitness to be president.

We don't need more of the same riding a donkey.

Posted by: tuckerndfw | Sep 14, 2007 2:48:27 AM

why dont all u ppl quit complaining and get up off of your lazy butts and do something to fix the problem such as realize the elections are rigged and thats why the oil companies r the only ones benifitting from this war

Posted by: me | May 10, 2008 7:19:20 PM

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