Posted on 08/01/2007 1:54:20 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton says Cheney wrong on her request
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday accused Vice President Dick Cheney of falsely portraying her attempt to get Iraq planning information out of the Pentagon.
The Democratic presidential front-runner has been hammering at the Bush administration for two weeks since a top Pentagon aide refused to tell her whether or how the military was planning for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
In a letter to the vice president, she accused Cheney of offering "inaccuracies" in opposing her request.
She used even tougher language in an appeal sent to supporters of her presidential bid: "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."
The politically charged debate began in May when Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sought a briefing on how the Pentagon is planning to eventually remove troops and equipment from Iraq.
Undersecretary for Policy Eric Edelman wrote to the New York senator last month that such discussion boosts "enemy propaganda." Clinton called that answer "outrageous" and accused the Pentagon of ducking a serious issue.
Now she's taking aim at Cheney, who said in an interview Tuesday with CNN that he agreed with Edelman's letter. Cheney said discussing specific troop movement plans with Congress could tip off the enemy.
"I thought it was a good letter," Cheney said.
Clinton fired back Wednesday in the letter to Cheney, saying she had never sought specifics of troop movements and was, in fact, getting a briefing from Edelman on the subject Thursday.
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The stones on this woman!!!
She worsens her image with every spoken word.
LLS
Breathtakingly self-serving. Hillary! at her best.
“The stones on this woman!!!”
You are assuming he’s a woman.
“I couldn’t care less what Dick Cheney says about me.”
A man would never utter this remark.
I hope Fat Teddy offers to drive her home!
The simple answer from Bush should be, “As Commander-in-Chief, I am briefed on all contingencies. For Senator Clinton make a public issue of it suggests that Mr. Edelman is right - it plays into the enemies hands. Mrs. Clinton can rest assured these matters are part of alternative plans of military commanders in whom I place great trust.”
In other words, Hillary, STFU — Bush is in charge here, thank you.
I bet she doesn’t even know where Iraq is.
Isn’t sending a letter to Cheney contradictory to not caring what he said?
...pretty darn sure it's mutual.
BBWWWAhhahahahahah..... Yer killin’ me......
“The Clinton campaign issued an appeal from the senator to supporters, asking them to weigh in on the issue of Cheney and troop withdrawal planning.”
weigh in = send cash..
"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote in the July 16 letter.He and Cheney are right...and throwing in Somalia was priceless."Such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks," he added.
Shrillery is scum, but what really annoyed me in the Cheney interview was how Larry King posed the question - I know Larry King graduated from the Liberal School for the Soft-Headed, but his question was grossly distorted: he asked why all ‘criticism’ from Democrats should be disallowed, which was not what the issue was about. That’s what the ‘RATs do all the time: you point out how they are actively trying to aid our enemies and they scream that ‘criticism’ must be allowed (of course, DUH) and that you are “questioning their patriotism”. The problem was not that Shrillery is raising ‘criticism’ but that she was trying to force the Pentagon to provide detailed plans on Iraq withdrawal, which of course would then be leaked and spun by libs as “imminent Iraq withdrawal” planned by Pentagon so that it would begin to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, undermining the mission, etc.
Shrillery knows exactly what she was/is trying to do, but for Larry King to swallow it whole..... so UNcritically..... shows again how servile the MSM is to the left.
“Background....what Edelman said:
“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Edelman wrote in the July 16 letter.
“Such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks,” he added.
He and Cheney are right...and throwing in Somalia was priceless.”
But all we will see is the great Beasts witty response......
The MSM only cares about their own..............
Yes truly, but sad that she will probably get at least 45% of the vote, even in a three way race.
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