Larded Psychopath Defames Hero
By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 12, 2007
WASHINGTON — Senator Clinton squared off yesterday with her possible challenger for the White House in 2012, General David Petraeus, and came closer than any of her colleagues to calling the commander of the multinational forces in Iraq a liar.
Using blunter language than any other Democrat in the last two days, Mrs. Clinton told General Petraeus that his progress report on Iraq required “a willing suspension of disbelief.”
Referring to the charts General Petraeus brought to the House and Senate this week, Mrs. Clinton said, “Although the charts tell part of the story, I don’t think they tell the whole story.” She said the “bottom-up” political reconciliation was “anecdotal” and that the success in Anbar province, where sheiks turned on Al Qaeda, started before the surge.
At the end of her speech, Mrs. Clinton pointed to what she saw as a discrepancy in the general’s responses to questions from other senators about whether he would recommend that America keep 130,000 troops in Iraq a year from now if no progress was made toward national reconciliation.
“Don’t you think the American people deserve a very specific answer about what is expected from our country in the face of the failure of the Iraqi government and its failure to achieve its political agenda?” she asked.
General Petraeus responded calmly. “I don’t see quite as big a difference as you do,” he said. “I would be very hard pressed at that time to recommend a continuation of our current troop levels” if conditions on the ground were the same in a year as they are now. He added that Mrs. Clinton’s question was “quite a bit hypothetical.”
The senator’s reaction to the cautious optimism of America’s top general in Iraq is a pivot away from the position she took last month, when she conceded that American forces had achieved some security gains in Iraq, particularly in the Anbar province. She later backed away from those remarks after coming under fire from rival presidential campaigns and anti-war Democrats.
Mrs. Clinton has called for a firm date for withdrawal, but she also has made the case for keeping a reserve of troops in the Kurdish provinces of northern Iraq. In 2002, she famously rebuked protesters from Code Pink, the anti-war organization that tried to disrupt the hearings in Congress this week, when she voted in favor of the resolution authorizing the Iraq war.
Democratic leaders this month have hinted that they will not seek a withdrawal date as a condition of the temporary funding bills that expire this month. This may be in part because the White House already has agreed to withdraw some 30,000 soldiers by next summer, leaving 130,000, or the pre-surge troop levels, for the height of next year’s political season. President Bush will address the nation tomorrow and is expected to endorse the withdrawal strategy previewed this week by General Petraeus on Capitol Hill.
Mrs. Clinton was not the only Democratic presidential aspirant yesterday to find fault with the general’s testimony. Her chief rival for the nomination, Senator Obama of Illinois, zeroed in on claims that the surge strategy aided the rout sustained by Al Qaeda in Anbar, the development General Petraeus has said is the most important reason for optimism today in Iraq.
“I’m not sure that the success in Anbar has anything to do with the surge,” Mr. Obama said. “You yourself said it was political.”
he senator said General Petraeus was changing the definition of success in Iraq. “Changing the definition of success to stay the course with the wrong policy is the wrong course for our troops and our national security. The time to end the surge and to start bringing our troops home is now, not six months from now,” Mr. Obama said in his opening statement.
In response to a question from Senator McCain, a Republican of Arizona, on the doubts about the links between the Anbar success and the surge, General Petraeus said: “The success in Anbar province correctly is seen as a political success but it is a political success that is enabled by our forces that are enabled by additional forces sent to Anbar.” He added, “It would not have happened as quickly without the surge, and I don’t know if we could have capitalized on it without the surge.”
Other Democrats seeking the presidential nomination were also critical yesterday of General Petraeus. Senator Biden of Delaware, who until the end of 2006 was opposed to a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, was particularly harsh. At the end of the hearing, he said he had not heard anything that persuaded him that the military was pursuing a new strategy as opposed to new tactics in Iraq.
In his opening statement, he warned, “The American people will not support an indefinite war whose sole remaining purpose is to prevent the situation in Iraq from becoming even worse.”
Senator Dodd of Connecticut spoke about his experience visiting a G.I. from his home state who had lost an eye. Mr. Dodd said the young man told him: “We will spend a month and a half to clear an area, and in an hour and a half things are back where they were before.”
General Petraeus responded by saying there were 165,000 American soldiers in Iraq with 165,000 different opinions.
Following the hearing, Mr. Dodd announced that he would not support any funding bill for Iraq or Afghanistan unless it included a date certain for withdrawal. “People are getting tired of hearing things are getting better. I don’t know anybody who believes that,” he said.
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If the Clintons get back in they’ll have to get around DC in a taxi driven by Obama Akbar and they’ll be flying commercial.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:09 amThis is why I can’t vote for her-I don’t trust her.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:39 amThe real reason not to vote for her is that she does not stand for anything… Just like her pervert husband, she will go where ever she is pushed by the special interests who throw money into her ego-driven campaigns. George Soros does not have America’s best interests at heart.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:57 amPSYCHOPATH…BINGO! Direct hit. The evil,corrupt,family hating, military loathing, miserable ugly bitch. If she was human she’d die of bile poisoning.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:14 amwhen the first republican candidate starts showing some balls..and they start telling and calling the democrats what they are..then thats who i will be voting for..so far rudy has come close
September 13th, 2007 at 4:43 amHey Pat check this out! Fresh off the Russian online press, maybe you can post it as a headline!! I can hear Putin and Achmedadimple say “Dooh”. Take Care!
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070913/78518873.html
September 13th, 2007 at 4:50 amI know none of the other Dems have any slightest qualification to be President of this great nation. Hillary’s one and ONLY qualification is that she already has a huge case of “Office Ass”
September 13th, 2007 at 4:58 amI fear the d’rats and the lost souls in this country who support them more than I fear al queeeeda types. I bet the Iraqi’s do too.
It would be ironic if an Iraqi stepped up and did what needs to be done stateside.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:05 amazbastard, you express my sentiments exactly. Did you see that leftist propaganda movie with Robin Williams called “Man of the Year?” He plays a comedian (liberal, of course) who runs for and wins the Presidency. The back story is about a woman who (Laura Linney?) who discovers a “glitch” in the software that tabulates the votes so the company that owns the code (Diebold, if you hate Bush) tries to suppress her by filling her full of a cocktail of drugs to make her seem paranoid delusional. Anyway, the liberals defeat the evil conservatives and everyone lives happily ever after.
Now…how about Jackie Mason for President? He’s smart, he’s funny and he calls democRats what they are. TRAITORS!!!!
Jackie for President!!!!
September 13th, 2007 at 5:23 amDon’t these Demo-Dolts realize that a fixed date for withdrawal just emboldens the insurgents? It tells them exactly how long they have to hang, for crying out loud. What a bunch of fools. Imagine if the Allies had said on June 7, “well, if we can’t liberate France by the end of the month, we’ll just have to withdraw”. What a bunch of twits.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:33 amIt’s okay to be wrong Hilly, just lose the attitude you bitch.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:03 amThis woman is dangerous. She will do or say anything to get elected. I wish someone in the Senate or the House had the courage to stand up and tell these self promoting professional politicians to pull their heads out of their “arses.”
September 13th, 2007 at 6:11 am“…Mrs. Clinton told General Petraeus that his progress report on Iraq required “a willing suspension of disbelief.”
No, I would argue that to believe that Her Highness Mrs Fatass is anything but a lying traitor like her husband would be a willing suspension of disbelief.
Like I keep saying…this women represents nothing BECAUSE SHE IS NOTHING.
Anyone who votes for this evil shrill is either dellusional or insane.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:25 amIs this website only for thin people?
September 13th, 2007 at 6:44 amLaura(no longer liberal):
No. This site is for smart people. Thick or thin, big or small, all patriots are welcome.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:03 amLaura -
It’s just not for fat psychopathic leftist traitors.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:10 amA willing suspension of disbelief covers the Clintons to a tee. As the old saying goes, if their lips are moving, they are lying. She has some fucking nerve saying that about a man who has more integrity than Hillary and her sorry fucking husband could muster in a full lifetime. If that ignorant fucking woman becomes the Commander-in-Chief of this country, we are in for more trouble than we have ever experienced on our home soil. All the non voting patriots better come alive in this election.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:23 amHate to say it boys & girls ….
September 13th, 2007 at 8:46 amShe’s gonna get the nomination
Soo many people in this country have so much hatered for the Republican party & George Bush that they will elect this bitch .. Just listen to Rush or Hannity when they ask people on the street ,, “Oh I dunno I think its just time for a change & she a woman ,,blah blah ,, The Clintons (blech) are rockstars ,,Im from NY & no I didnt vote for this turd but I hate to say it she’ll get elected … We can only hope that the rest of this country can come out in droves to stop this bitch from winning !! Who said the Anti-Christ Couldnt be a Woman ,,& she’s wearing a Pantsuit !
Lil Mac:
The bitch will get the nod and go down to a historical defeat. Here’s the bet: I tell my friends that the bitch will lose the general election by 10 points. For the purposes of this bet the skinny is 5 points. If I lose the bet you get one ticket for one dinner (party of one) at Ruth’s Criss. If I win…you owe me nothing. I just get to rub it in…You in?
September 13th, 2007 at 9:15 amI don’t think the public is so brainwashed by the MSM (”hate for the Repub’s & Bush”) that they would vote in Hillary with the high negatives she has. Do you honestly think anyone wants to look at her nasty mug and hear her shrill voice for the next 4-8 years? Do you honestly think ANYONE in the military would vote for her? Look, I know alot of people are prejudiced against Romney, but everytime I see him speak in ANY forum, he never messes up, and he’s WAY better looking. Also, Guilliani with a southern VP would beat Billary’s pantsuit off.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:21 amDan ( my infidel brother)
September 13th, 2007 at 11:56 amIm in
But let me be clear ,,,
I Do Not want the Bitch To Win
I bet it is
Lamplighter
Once again ….
September 13th, 2007 at 12:01 pmId hate to see it happen ,,
But being from NY ,, I gotta listen to all these Liberal Pukes on a daily basis … Im w/ you Rudy or Rommney
However , Fred Thompson does sound like a prez when he speaks ” A Russkie doesnt take a dump withoutta plan son”
THFRO
Uncle Sam, read your link, wow, can’t wait.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pmLaura–”Don’t these Demo-Dolts realize that a fixed date for withdrawal just emboldens the insurgents?”
Yes.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:56 pm