Hillary Clinton Sees Some Troops Staying in Iraq if She Is Elected

[Herman Munster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14cnd-clinton.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, March 14 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a “remaining military as well as political mission” in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.

In a half-hour interview on Tuesday in her Senate office, Mrs. Clinton said the scaled-down American military force that she would maintain in Iraq after taking office would stay off the streets in Baghdad and would no longer try to protect Iraqis from sectarian violence — even if it descended into ethnic cleansing.

In outlining how she would handle Iraq as commander in chief, Mrs. Clinton articulated a more-nuanced position than the one she has provided at her campaign events, where she has backed the goal of “bringing the troops home.”

She said in the interview that there were “remaining vital national security interests in Iraq” that would require a continuing deployment of American troops.

The United States’ security would be undermined if parts of Iraq turned into a failed state “that serves as a petri dish for insurgents and Al Qaeda,” she said. “It is right in the heart of the oil region. It is directly in opposition to our interests, to the interests of regimes, to Israel’s interests.”

[mzmolly]

1. Buh bye Hillary.

:hi:

[rockymountaindem]

2. She's not helping herself today much, is she? n/t

[Herman Munster]

3. We still have troops in South Korea

50 years after the korean war....

[rockymountaindem]

4. I don't think

that voters, who are increasingly fed-up with the Iraq war, want to hear that Clinton plans on keeping troops there if she's elected. Also, let's not forget that the Korean government wants our soldiers to be there, and the worst thing that happens is the occational protest against our presence. I can't see the day when any American soldier in Iraq will become just another part of the landscape... not after all of this.

[BobRossi]

7. Oh no you didn't go there!

Yes yes, and Bill envaded Kosovo. Yada yada yada.

[BobRossi]

5. Get back in the kitchen Hillary!

You ain't fit to be President.

[BlueJac]

6. I knew she was like that...........

She would never say, "I am sorry".

It is all about big money!

END THE BUSH-CLINTON DYNASTY WHILE WE CAN!!

Shit, could you imagine Jeb after Hillary?

It could be a lifetime.

[BobRossi]

8. Or Jenna?

[Thickasabrick]

9. Agreed....the line that did it for me was....."It is right in the heart

of the oil region. " She's officially dead to me.

[genie_weenie]

10. Hey, she's got to prove she has the "balls"

to send men to their deaths as Ruler...

[sandnsea]

11. But don't bash Hillary now

:argh:

[mdmc]

12. On to victory

USA! USA!

[ComerPerro]

13. at least shes being honest about Iraq

there's a lot of work that might have to be done, because Bush and the Republicans have fucked things up really badly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. And that isthe functon of Empire

no Empire gives it up willingly

[winston61]

15. Give that disgusting slag a weapon and send her and her

sorry ass husband both to Iraq.