Posted on 08/01/2007 4:17:26 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear Friend,
More than 150,000 of our brave men and women are in a war zone, and Dick Cheney doesn't think Congress should know about how we are planning to bring them home.
Well I do, and I won't stop putting pressure on this administration until I know they have a plan to bring our troops home safely.
But it's not just that Cheney doesn't think Congress should have oversight -- he thinks those of us who do are "reinforcing enemy propaganda."
It is time to find out exactly where the Bush administration stands on this issue. I'm going to send a letter to President Bush, and I want your name to be on it. Join me in calling on him to plan for the safe withdrawal of our troops.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/iraq
Here's the whole story. Back in May, concerned about the administration's failure to plan in Iraq, I sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking him to provide Congress with briefings of contingency plans for withdrawal -- or an explanation of why no such plans exist.
Two weeks ago, Under Secretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded in a letter that said discussing plans for withdrawal "reinforces enemy propaganda." It was an outrageous response -- and a dangerous one. Planning for withdrawal isn't just common sense. It is vital to ensuring our troops return home safe.
Secretary Gates quickly disavowed Edelman's letter, saying he encouraged Congressional oversight and promising to respond to my original inquiry.
But in an interview with Larry King that aired last night on CNN, Vice President Cheney said he agreed with Edelman's assertion that Congress asking the Pentagon to plan for our troops' safe return "reinforces enemy propaganda."
So which is it, President Bush? Do you support the safe return of troops from Iraq, or are you going to continue to play politics with their lives?
Let's ask him together:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/iraq
I couldn't care less what Dick Cheney says about me. But when he plays politics with the lives of our troops, you had better be sure I'm going to respond. And I know that you want to respond too.
Thank you for joining me in calling on President Bush to plan for the safe return of our troops from Iraq, and for the support you show me every day.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Dear Hillary,
You want our Vice-President to divulge military secrets? Go to hell.
Dear Hillary,
When are we going to find out who was on your “Health Care Task Force”? You’ve never seen fit to release the data.
Don’t the American people deserve the right to know who has your ear, what they’re proposing and how they came to their conclusions?
Tzi
Hillary really is an idiot if she had anything to do with this “position”...
She didn’t just send a letter she made a very public announcement - and that’s a big difference.
Dear Hillary,
Here is our plan for troop withdrawl in Iraq. You will be sent over there to fight a rear guard action to ensure the peace when our troops leave.
A Hillary win in 2008 will be a military recruiters nightmare for sure.
I would send her a plan. We plan on withdrawing totally in 2028. How’s that?
PIG at the trough of Politics.
A better plan is to post her ugly face on every telephone pole. The Citizens will run out in a panic, and there will be no Iraqi’s—not Al Queda, not Sunni, not Shia, not Kurd.
You asked:
So which is it, President Bush? Do you support the safe return of troops from Iraq, or are you going to continue to play politics with their lives?
That is one of the dumbest questions I have ever heard. If you can’t figure out the answer to the first part, you damned sure don’t come anywhere close to being “the smartest woman in the world”, as your butt kissings crudbuckets dubbed you; and the second part of it is a flat outright lying inference..
Now let me ask you one in the same vein: Do you pick your nose or carry your lunch to work?
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