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Hillary: ’Right-Wing Apparatus’ to Blame for Troop Comment Firestorm
Bad right wing apparatus! Bad! No cookie!
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she was right to tell U.S. troops that Americans back home were starting to doubt President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq, calling complaints that her comments undermined military morale "the latest flaming charge by the right wing."
Perhaps someday, someone will have the pleasure of telling Hillary's campaign workers that they're going to lose, and lose big. Probably Hillary won't even get an invitation to President Rice's inauguration...
"Let me correct the record. It didn’t happen," Clinton told CBS’s "Face the Nation."
"Nope. Nope. Never happened. Nope."
"I know that’s the latest flaming charge by the right wing, but that’s not what happened."
Please tell me where I can sign up for the “flaming right wing" LOL
The top Democrat claimed instead that she was merely responding truthfully to a question from a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division when she told him, "There are questions being raised about the administration’s policies."
Yes troops always ask political questions while deployed in a hostile area. In Hillary’s world they do.
Appearing on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Clinton blamed a "right-wing apparatus" for the firestorm over her remarks. "You know, I find it so interesting that this has now become an issue, largely fueled by a lot of the talk shows and the other sort of right-wing apparatus. What I said is what I believe."
"Whether it's rational or not. It wasn't the troops I was interested in, anyway. It was the money men back home..."
"These young men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, they’re on the Internet, they get the media, they know very well there is a debate about our policies," she explained, overlooking persistent reports that troops are concerned over distorted press coverage of their mission in Iraq.
Coming out of CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, Etc.
But Sen. Clinton insisted, "From my perspective, it is fully appropriate in talking with our soldiers to have that kind of conversation with them." Her defense prompted "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert to ask, "Are you outta your friggin' mind? But if someone suggests you’re undercutting morale by criticizing the commander in chief to these soldiers in Iraq, it doesn’t trouble you?"
"Have you no shame, madame?"
"Well, I don’t think that’s what I did," Clinton shot back.
And then she hit him with her riding crop.
"First of all, from my perspective, answering a direct question by an American soldier who knows very well that in previous conflicts in our country we didn’t always support our troops" was the right thing to do.
"We didn't support our troops before, so why should I bother supporting them now? What do they matter?"
The top Democrat then accused the Bush administration of not supporting the troops with adequate supplies, complaining, "We haven’t given them enough body armor. We didn’t give them enough armored Humvees. We didn’t do what was necessary to give our men and women on the ground the full support that they deserve."
This shrew never stops giving me ammo for which to fire at her. She know damn well (now) that her comments were out of bounds for an ELECTED member of the Senate. This continuing charge of conspiracy just shows how out of touch with reality she really is. I might add that I don’t know ANY member of the Armed forces that would even think of asking such a question to a member of Congress. This was also true when Her wife was the President. Her defense shows she know NOTHING about the military and how the view the civilian leaders. How cowardly of her to hide behind some mythical 10th MTN DIV Soldier. If these are your words defend them on YOUR on merit or admit you were wrong.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-08
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