Wow . I Need The Smartest , Most Intelligent , And Thoughful Democrats To Answer This One . . . .... . . .?

Question

Now That Hillary Admits That Troops Will Be In Iraq At Least Until 2013. .. . Even If She Becomes President. . .. . . Then Doncha Think She Should Make A Clear-Cut Apology To Our Standing 4-Star General Petraeus ?

No playin dodge-ball on this one . Hillary even said that she couldn't promise any troop withdrawal immediately after entering office either .

Truthseeker - I said no dodge-ball on this one . If she was for withdrawal only weeks ago , regardless of the consequences , then she's gotta be for troop withdrawal on the very day she enters office. . . . IF that were ever to occur .

Mr. Campbell's ABC Soup - Ahem , uhhhhh , managing a good campaign ? Since when is that an attribute worth mentioning ?

Answer 1

I'm surprised. I thought she would say whatever she needed to to get elected. The fact that she is willing to admit that the troops just simply can't be pulled out is odd. She still will never get my vote and maybe she is just pandering to the right feeling as though the left is in her pocket.......

Answer 2

No playing dodgeball, I'm having trouble connecting the two things as you are. Why should she apologize to Petraeus when she disagreed with his "sanitized" report? What does that have to do with the difficulty of bringing the balance of our troops home as soon as possible (which realistically may not be the first day of her Presidency) and still leaving residual troops to deal with protecting our interests. She was calling Petraeus out not because he was lying, but because he conveniently left out the negatives that are still happening in that area while he touted only the positives - giving an unbalanced picture that sounded better than the whole truth. She has, and has had a realistic outlook on the fact that first she must put real pressure on the Iraqi govt to solve their political problems so she can put a stop to policing this civil war. She will immediately engage in that process the day after she is sworn in, which IS the beginning of putting an end to this war. How can any of the Democratic candidates, or Republicans for that matter, predict what the situation will be a year and a half from now when they take office in January 09? They can promise action to BEGIN ending this war, but cannot make a promise about mass troop withdrawal immediately as they cannot possibly know what the situation will be then. Of course we will still have troops in Iraq in 2013, we are not in the foreseeable future, going to be able to leave Iraq en masse and will have some troops there indefinitely.

Answer 3

E.T. 2.0, Take a bow, son, you have asked a question that , at this time, has 32 answers, MANY of them GREAT !!!!
When I read your question, I immediately knew that you would receive some GREAT answers from the Indeps., Reps., AND a few Dems.
Only a few DEMS can match your descriptive qualifications, for intellect, SADLY, SADLY, SADLY as that GREAT Political Party Has Been Hijacked by the HARD Left, and totally abandoning the sensibles, that USED TO have some say about the "Future" of that party. BTW, I DID LOOSE A BET, ABOUT BILLARY DOING A FLIPPER ON THE TROUPES WITHDRAWAL.!!! $100.00 she cost me, I bet she would wait until after Oct. 01, '07 12:01 A.M. to announce " Change of mind" , Again !!!

Answer 4

Hillary is only covering her *** in case Iraq turns out great in the next year, then she can remind everyone that it is because of the Democrats that it was successful. Evidently, she has seen a poll that shows that Democrats are weak on national defense so she is trying to remedy this shortcoming and really making the left wing of the party furious!

Answer 5

because the ad was placed before he spoke to the nation, yes I agree. She may be held in a higher esteem if she had said something along the lines of, "I'm not connected to that ad- I'd like to hear General Petraeus give his report before I make up my own mind."

If the ad was done afterwards though, as a rebuttal to the report, and she had agreed with it then, I would feel differently.

I hope this doesn't come across as playing dodge-ball... I'm just trying to give my thoughts in basically 2 different scenarios- before and after.

Answer 6

If this is precisely what she said....and since I did not hear her, I cannot say for sure(you can't trust newscasts)...then I would say that this is probably the most truthful thing I have heard any candidate say; particularly saying that she could not promise any immediate troop withdrawal. And why should she have to apologize to Petraeus? This country needs to get out of the habit of thinking everyone owes everyone else an apology for each and every thing they say. It's politics, folks. Someone says something another doesn't like, so the other apologizes. Then the first one says something unflattering so he has to apologize, too. Arghhhh. It needs to stop. Dammit, if you feel someone is a jerk...say "you're a jerk", and don't be pussyfooting around it the next day. However, reading your additional comments to people who have said nothing rude to you, makes me think you just want to argue for argument's sake, so fuhgedit.

Answer 7

I know the old saying " a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while"

But come on you know there is no such thing as a smart, intelligent and thoughtful Democrat.

Most be bad booze or wishful thinking. or a bad dream.
That's it the Dream act most be it.

maybe the left can pretend on this one. DA,DA, BASH BUSH HE is running again isn't he DA.
the last statement was from Micheal Moron and Moveon care of Hillary and Oprah.

Answer 8

A) What do you care if another politician lies and cheats and steals. You will not make a difference.
B) If you can do better, why aren't you running for office
C) Nothing is as simple as you cry-babies want to make it out to be. You can't just elect someone and they say ok we're done, everyone come home and spend billions pullling everyone out just so two years later they can spend billions more to send them back after all hell breaks loose over there again...and it will.
D) support the troops the best you can, and/or SHUT UP,
E) I wouldn't vote for Hilliary if she was the only one on the ticket, but I also don't think you can start pointing fingers if you don't have a better plan. And don't waste you breath, you don't and no one else does either.

Answer 9

Actually, she has been quietly saying this a while now.

I watched her section of the hearing, and, I didn't hear at all the level of disrespect that Fox depicted. She said she needed to suspend belief on some of the conclusions drawn from the report, but, also stated loudly and clearly that Gen P. was performing his job, as, demanded from him.

Look, I'm no huge fan of H. Clinton, but, she is respected on the hill and has, to date, managed a smart campaign.

I do think she would make a better President than Bush, but, I'd say that about...Romney, McCain, Hillary, and maybe one or two others...

Um, 2.0, to answer your question as simply as I can, um, whom is in the lead?

Answer 10

Why would she need to apologize to General Petreaus? The troops will be phased out as she has said before. By 2013 there will only be a few left to guard the embassy (largest in the world) and some oil wells and refineries. Combat forces will be long gone by 2013. But yes, we will still have people in Iraq in 2013 so there is no conflict in what she has said and no need to appologize to General P or anyone else.

And thanks for seeing the inevitable that Hillary will be your next president.