[Kirkwood]

"Mitchell said something like (I don't have the direct quote) George Bush won't get a bump out of the capture because everyone knows Hillary Rodham Clinton is the biggest Hawk on Iraq."

WHAT?!!!

[workerbee]

Kerry made some comment like "if we had more troops there this would have happened faster."

Way to diminish the military you think you can command on one of their best days of the war, you butthead. Note to Effin' John: if we had just put troops there in the first place and hadn't dicked around with the likes of you and your pals at the UN, then it would've happened even faster!

[OrioleFan]

Here's what ir says in the transcript (although it's not ho I remember it when she said it):

Mitchell: And, in fact, I was told that he did not have very much about Iraq in the speech. Deliberately he wanted to say that foreign policy should be beyond Iraq. Not only are they going to rewrite but Hillary Clinton has a speech on foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations tomorrow.

Klein: Tomorrow morning, right.

Mitchell: And she had focused much more on Iraq. So she is better positioned just philosophically on this as being more hawkish and more intuned with the administration.