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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:07 AM
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What Hillary Doesn't Say about Iraq
As uaual, Hillary is blurring lines and not telling the whole story. As usual she panders for whatever audience she is speaking to and not being upfront with anyone.





Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton traveled to the crucial caucus state of Iowa July 10 to assure voters that she would keep U.S. troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future because "we cannot lose sight of our very real strategic national interests in this region."

You missed that news story? Me, too. It's not the message Clinton wanted to convey, and it's not the message that reporters took away from her speech.

But it would have been an accurate, if incomplete, rendition of her long address on Iraq policy. That she wanted to go on the record with such a view, but didn't want voters to really hear it, says much about the current Washington bind on Iraq policy.

Here's what she wanted voters to take away from the speech, judging by the top of the campaign's press release about it: "Today in Iowa, Hillary Clinton announced her plan to end the war in Iraq and urged President Bush to act immediately." Most of the address indeed focused on her plan to withdraw combat troops, which she said she would accompany with increased aid and diplomacy. She peppered the speech with criticism of Bush's war leadership and with phrases such as "as we are leaving Iraq."


http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Fred+Hiatt%3A+What+Hillary+Clinton+(almost)+doesn't+say+about+Iraq&articleId=33ba8bbe-ee4e-40d5-a876-98ad1a710584
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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:15 AM
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1. why does hillary insist that Iraq privatize its oil reserve, and sell it to
multinationals?
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draft_mario_cuomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 12:17 AM
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2. Are you upset by her growing lead in the polls?
:sarcasm:
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