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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary’s War Part Three
Hillary Clinton addresses Code Pink on March 6, 2003 and discusses Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the run up to the Iraq War.
Yet if we had to guess, the new development that might create the most fodder at the debate is a five-year-old National Intelligence Estimate. In their new book (and magazine article) on Hillary Clinton, investigative reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. allege that she never read the NIE before casting her war vote, which the campaign doesn’t deny. Dodd didn’t read it, and neither did Edwards (despite what he might have said on Wednesday). Interestingly, the Biden camp tells First Read that the Delaware senator DID read it — or at least a draft version of it, which the campaign says had no substantial differences from the final version.
Will Slow Joe Plagiarising Biden have the COJONES to bring this up at the Democrat debate in New Hampshire Sunday?
Will Biden ask Hillary? Or Flipper Edwards?
Edwards says he read the NIE; spokesman later says he dind’t entirely understand question, and didn’t mean to say that.
Flap says they dodge the issue at the debate.
Will the press follow-up?
Stay tuned…….
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Thanks for the Memories
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary’s War Part Two
Hillary Clinton addresses Code Pink on March 6, 2003 and discusses Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the run up to the Iraq War.
Hillary AGAIN avoids anwering the question raised in Hillary’s War:
Did she read the entire 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before voting to authorize the Iraq War?
The Quote:
“We were thoroughly briefed by the people who wrote that estimate, by the people who supervised its writing, on numerous occasions. And I believe that I received all of the information that was necessary for me to reach a judgment.â€
But Clinton’s response raises more questions: If the vote was the “hardest decision” she has ever made, was a briefing by the people who wrote the estimate sufficient to reach that decision? And if then-Sen. Bob Graham (D) said he decided to vote against the war authorization because he had read the entire NIE report, as Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. write in the New York Times magazine, then did she really have all the information she needed to reach a judgment?
She won’t answer the question.
Somehow I think Obama will raise it and if not then the GOP nominee.
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Quits Democrat Party Over Iraq War Funding Part Two
The light bulb has turned on in Cindy Sheehan’s brain.
The Democrats DON”T care about Iraq, the Iraq War, the Iraqi people or the American troops fighting in Iraq, including Sheehan’s dead son, Casey. They want to make CHEAP political points, control the Congress and regain the Presidency.
Did You finally figure it out?
Somehow Flap doesn’t think this is the last we have heard from Cindy Sheehan – but it should be.
Maybe she will return to Venezuela and help out her friend, Hugo Chavez.
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Iraq War Watch: Memorial Day Messages
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_Michael Yon: A Memorial Day Message
Memorial Day weekend is upon us. I am out here in Anbar Province with Task Force 2-7 Infantry. The area around Hit (pronounced “heatâ€) is so quiet previous units likely would not recognize the still. There was a small IED incident this morning, and the explosion was a direct hit, but the bomb was so small that mechanics had the vehicle back in shape by late afternoon. Calm truly has fallen on this city.
Dishes are appearing on rooftops and people are communicating more freely. During today’s prayers, one mosque announced that divorce is bad and that parents should take care of their children. One mosque cried about Christians and Jews, while yet another announced that Al-Jazeera is lying and people should not watch it.
Long-time readers know that I deliver bad news with the good. I was first to write that parts of Iraq were in civil war back in February 2005, well over a year before mainstream outlets started reporting the same. I was also the first to report, back in 2005, that Mosul was making a turn for the better. Mainstream outlets hardly picked up on that story, however, although the turn was easy to see for anyone who was there. When I returned from Afghanistan in the spring of 2006, after writing about the growing threat of a resurgent Taliban, bankrolled with profits from the heroin trade, I wrote that parts of our own military were censoring media in Iraq. The recent skirmishing over blogging from Iraq supports that contention. These reminders are for new readers who do not believe that a province that most media outlets had put at the top of the “hopelessly lost†column is actually turning a corner for the better.
Although there is sharp fighting in Diyala Province, and Baghdad remains a battleground, and the enemy is trying to undermine security in areas they’d lost interest in, the fact is that the security plan, or so-called “surge,†is showing clear signs of progress. The city of Hit, for instance. Only about a hundred days ago, Hit was a city at war. Today, the buildings are still riddled with bullet holes, but the Iraqi people are opening shops and painting over the scars. They are waving and smiling while hundreds of men are volunteering to join the police. I saw a “policeman†on duty today whose “weapon†was a plastic pistol. I photographed the toy. And so this man was on “duty†with a toy pistol, though he has not yet attended the police academy and is not even being paid. A writer could probably squeeze bad news from that story, but I won’t try. In fact, Hit is a place where writers who wish to escape combat and bad news should visit. Emphasis mine
Contrast this piece written by Michael Yon who is embedded in Iraq living with American troops with the New York Times Lede for the Memorial Day morning edition (from Drudge):
NYT LEAD MONDAY: A dozen soldiers interviewed over one-week period, most said they were disillusioned by repeated deployments, by what they saw as abysmal performance of Iraqi security forces and by conflict they considered civil war, one they had no ability to stop…
Update: Here is the link to the NYT piece.
Happy Memorial Day indeed…….
Update #2:
Michelle has a round-up of reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan:
Counterterrorism analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is embedded in Iraq. Read his latest dispatch from outside the wire: Patrolling Yarmouk.
Outside the Wire’s J.D. Johannes, embedded with the Black Lions of Task Force 1-28 in Baghdad, reports on the “cellular battlespace.”
Miblogs reporting…
Desert Flier, a flight/trauma nurse in Anbar province, blogs about Ramadi all-nighters.
Stimp at My Desert Adventure blogs about soldiers pimping their rides.
Jules Crittenden takes note of the Associated Press’s holiday grim death toll notice and spots a telling omission…..
Here are the names of the fallen who have died serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Now this is better……more fair and balanced.
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Quits Democrat Party Over Iraq War Funding
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan takes part in an anti-war rally in front of the White House in Washington May 14, 2007.
Newbusters has the story (Via Hot Air) about Sheehan quiting the Democrat Party over the Iraq War funding bill.
Cindy, Hillary and Obama voted with the Iraqi War Democrats.
What is the problem?
Yet, Cindy Sheehan is not the only LEFT WING MORON who is unhappy with the Democrats.
Here is video of potty-mouthed Ben Affleck:
They both don’t understand that the Democrats in Congress do NOT care about Iraq, the Iraqi people, the Iraq War or our American troops fighting in Iraq.
These “SURRENDER MONKEY DEMOCRATS” only care about taking political advantage and making political gains.
And, they do NOT care whether Cindy Sheehan belongs to the Democrat Party or not.
Understand?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir May 27, 2007
But, Chris, the MSM want to portray America as the aggressor here. President Bush has done NOTHING correct in Iraq – this is their story meme.
Here is a little remembrance of Saddam and terrorism.
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Iraq War Watch: Remembering Saddam Hussein
And a 1999 ABC News Documentary: Bin Laden ties to Saddam Hussein
A non-revisionist view of why the United States is fighting in Iraq.
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Michael Ramirez on Harry Reid’s Surrender on Iraq War Funding
Reuters: Bush signs $100 billion Iraq war funding bill
U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill on Friday providing $100 billion to pay for the
Iraq war but congressional Democrats who failed to impose a troop withdrawal deadline said their fight was far from over.Passage of the emergency spending legislation capped a four-month struggle between Bush and a new Democratic-controlled Congress determined to force him to shift course in the unpopular war.
Bush had vetoed an earlier bill that would have required him to begin withdrawing soldiers from Iraq by October 1, and he had vowed to kill any legislation carrying restrictions on troop deployments.
With Democrats lacking the votes to override the president and the war funds running out, a divided Congress passed a compromise measure on Thursday.
Harry Reid WIMPED OUT.
Now, Drudge is reporting that President Bush will be pulling troops out of Iraq next year in any case.
Bush wins…….
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Iraq War Watch: Barack and Hillary Vote With Anti-Iraq War Democrats
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL (L) listens to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speak in Orangeburg, South Carolina, April 26, 2007.Sens. Obama and Clinton earned praise from anti-war activists but criticism from Republicans on Friday for voting against a measure to pay for the Iraq war that sets no timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops.
The vote in the United States Senate was 80-14 and two of the nays were Hillary and Barack.
Were they scared of the NUTROOTS or laying the ground work for their Fall campaigns for the Presidency?
Probably both
But, in order to be successful on the latter President Bush and American troops must be unsuccessful in Iraq.
How disgusting is that? Betting against your own people.
And, there is criticism from the right.
John McCain:
“I was very disappointed to see Senator Obama and Senator Clinton embrace the policy of surrender by voting against funds to support our brave men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan,†McCain, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination, said. “This vote may win favor with MoveOn and liberal primary voters, but it’s the equivalent of waving a white flag to al Qaeda.â€
Mitt Romney:
Romney argued that the vote “singularly defines their lack of leadership and serves as a glaring example of an unrealistic and inexperienced worldview on national security that is regrettably shared by too many of their fellow Capitol Hill Democrats.â€
Rudy Giuliani:
Stay tuned……
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