Pat Dollard | Young Americans

I guess Hunter S. Thompson was right…the grind drives every Presidential candidate insane…suicidal move…how detached is this bitch?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton charged on Monday the Iraq war may cost Americans $1 trillion and add strain to the sagging U.S. economy as she made her case for a prompt U.S. troop pullout from a war “we cannot win.”

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but the economy’s woes competed for attention as the top issue facing voters when they choose their next president in November.

Clinton, the former first lady who is trying to convince Americans she has foreign policy gravitas, hurled criticism over Iraq at her two rivals, Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.

New York Sen. Clinton pointedly noted that while Obama insists he will withdraw U.S. troops in Iraq within 16 months of taking office, his former foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, had said he might not follow through on the pledge.

“In uncertain times, we cannot afford uncertain leadership,” Clinton said. Power resigned after a British newspaper quoted her calling Clinton a “monster.”

Obama, who routinely scolds Clinton for having voted for a 2002 Senate resolution that authorized the war, fired back: “It was an unwise war which is why I opposed it in 2002 and why I will bring this war to an end in 2009.”

Obama, who leads Clinton in nominating delegates with the important Pennsylvania contest coming up on April 22, began a second straight week on the defensive.

Obama, the Illinois senator who would be the first U.S. black president, scheduled a speech about race for Tuesday in Philadelphia to try to put to rest questions about his Chicago preacher, Jeremiah Wright, an African-American who sometimes laces his sermons with anti-American rhetoric.

“I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he said in Monaca, Pennsylvania.