Hillary Is Schooled By O'Reilly- Shows Weakness on National Security
Hillary: There is no military solution in Iraq-- But, there is in Afghanistan(?)
Hillary Clinton was a guest on the The Factor tonight for the second part of an interview with Bill O'Reilly.
Her arguments for pulling out of Iraq are insane. And, she even questions whether Iran wants the US to leave Iraq(?) That's naive.
Here's the video:
** Does Hillary really believe that Iran wants the US to stay in Iraq?
** Why is it that democrats are so willing to throw Iraq and the Middle East into chaos?
** Why is there no "military solution in Iraq" but there is a military solution in Afghanistan?
** Why are democrats unable to see the great gains in Iraq over the past year?
** Do Democrats really think that America can trust them in Afghanistan fighting Al-Qaeda and the Taliban when they want to throw Iraq to Al-Qaeda and Iran?
This interview was frightening.
UPDATE: Hillary also said she won't enforce federal law.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 5/01/2008 05:38:00 PM
12 Comments:
What a moron! If she thinks America being in Iraq undermines America's capacity to deal with their other problems, then she obviously hasn't the wisdom, capacity, or foresight to see that the results of her withdrawing American troops will create greater problems than she could even imagine America would have to bite off and chew.
She might be naive, but what do you think Obama would be like? He's downright scary.
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Earth to Hillary (Obama)..
"Moment Of Truth In Iraq"
excerpt:
[Never underestimate the American soldier. That's the moral of former Green Beret Michael Yon's brilliant battle-by-battle, block-by-block tale of how America's new `greatest generation' of soldiers is turning defeat and disaster into victory and hope in Iraq.
The American soldier is the reason General David Petraeus's brilliant strategy of moving our soldiers off isolated bases and out among the Iraqi people is working. Working to find and kill terrorists, reclaim neighborhoods, and help lead Iraq to democracy.
Yon is no cheerleader. According to the New York Times, he has logged more time in combat situations in Iraq than any other reporter. When failed American leadership was driving Iraq into chaos and civil war, nobody told the story earlier or better than Michael Yon. The top brass was so mad that twice the U.S. military denied him access to Iraq.
So Yon has supreme credibility when he says that we are finally winning, not primarily with our overwhelming technology, not with shock and awe destruction, but with the even more powerful force of American values--with the courage and leadership, strength and compassion of our soldiers.
Iraqis respect strength, says Yon. They know American soldiers are "great-hearted warriors" who vanquish the Al Qaeda terror gangs that "raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, brought drugs into too many neighborhoods."
But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic or a school or a neighborhood. They learned the American soldier is not only the most dangerous man in the world, but the best man too. That's what turned defeat into victory.
Here is the true, untold story of the American soldier and the courage and values that are bringing victory for America--and Iraq.]
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Earth to Hillary (Obama)
HT : The Belmont Club
US officials: Decision on confronting Iran up to Iraq
excerpts:
[Iraqi leaders have been given the latest U.S. evidence of Iranian support for militias inside Iraq, and Baghdad will decide what to do about it, two senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
Marine Lt. Gen. John Sattler, director of strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki possesses the evidence, which other officials said contradicts Tehran's stated commitment to stop providing arms, weapons technology and training to Shiite militias inside Iraq.
"It's in Prime Minister al-Maliki's hands right now, the evidence as to whether or not he's been lied to — bald-faced lied to — by the Iranian government," Sattler told a Pentagon news conference.
"The evidence inside Baghdad has been shared with the Iraqi leadership, and that's where it stands right now," he added.]
[Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other U.S. government officials have asserted that Iranian-trained Iraqi Shiite militiamen are carrying out attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq — using weapons supplied by Iran — that are killing not only Iraqis but U.S. troops as well.
Appearing with Sattler at the Pentagon was the Joint Chiefs' operations chief, Army Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, who said the Iraqis will play "a leading role" in determining how to deal with the problem.]
[Asked more directly what the U.S. government intends to do about the Iranian actions in Iraq, Ham replied, "Clearly the Iraqis have a leading role, but it is necessarily an international effort to which the United States clearly is a significant factor in this."
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that U.S. officials in Baghdad planned to publicly release evidence of continuing lethal Iranian assistance to militias inside Iraq. That plan is on hold to give the Iraqis time to speak directly to Tehran about the problem, one official said.]
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Earth to Hillary (Obama)
HT : The Belmont Club
The Washington Monument Defense
excerpt:
[BAGHDAD — The Iraqi prime minister is sending several senior Shiite leaders to Tehran to discuss their concerns that Iran is arming and financing militias in Iraq, senior Iraqi and American officials said Wednesday.
Iraqi officials including Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki have previously traveled to Iran, but this appears to be the first time that an elite delegation has been dispatched by Mr. Maliki to take up reports of Iranian intervention in Iraq.
American officials supported the trip, but portrayed it as the brainchild of Mr. Maliki. One American official described the Iraqis’ concern about Iran’s role as “the silver lining” to recent fighting between Shiite militias and Iraqi and American security forces in Basra and in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, a militia stronghold.
The delegation, which was scheduled to leave Wednesday, was handpicked by Mr. Maliki, who went out of his way in an interview Wednesday to stress his independence. “I have never been the man of Iran, and I told America that I’m not the man of America in Iraq,” he told Al Arabiya, an Arab news channel.]
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Hillary: "There is no military solution in Iraq."
It drives me nuts when I hear this assertion and it goes unchallenged.
The fact is, military action is absolutely necessary, but not by itself sufficient for the "solution" in Iraq.
So while it is true that military action alone won't "solve" Iraq, that's hardly a justification for a precipitous withdrawal.
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Brian O'Connor @ 10:11 PM..
drives me nuts too.. they (Dems) continually
leave off the other half of the equation.. ie:
General David Petraeus Said There Is No Military Solution in Iraq, There Must Be a Political Solution.
“And I think, again, that any student of history recognizes that there is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq. Military action is necessary to help improve security, for all the reasons that I stated in my remarks, but it is not sufficient. A political resolution of various differences, of this legislation, of various senses that people do not have a stake in the success of the new Iraq, and so forth, that is crucial. That is what will determine in the long run the success of this effort.” [Multi-National Force – Iraq, Press Briefing, 3/8/07]
iow: "the war cannot be won solely militarily, but requires a combination of military and political action"
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There is no diplomatic only solution in Iraq!
War with an enemy defines an immediate military solution until one side surrenders. In this situation, there are multiple sides and proxy feeders.
Syria, Iran, and fianciers, religious leaders fund, recruit suicide bombers, train militia and weaponize our enemies.
They fund and support Al Qaeda and Sadr's militias.
The military must defeat the main enemy and turn the national Iraqis against outside influence. You cannot do this by sitting at the table with Syria or Iran. You have to confront their proxy fighters, destroy their IRaqi commanders, communications and rat lines. You have to proetect the Iraqi people first so they can live again without threat, assemble, organize and be trained to fight themselves.
That is exactly what America is doing. Whatever mistakes were made are nothing in consideration if Obama or Hillary get their way in pulling troops out. They would allow chaos to ensue and throw Iraqis "under the Syrian/Iranian bus of thug tyrants" to acheive their warped view of power and greed against Bush and the Republicans.
She voted for this war. Obama, I can understand with his roots and ties to Syria why he would be in favor of tyrants, status quo.
They're both guilty of Kerryisms who led the South Vietnamese to be slaughtered by North and Chinese, driven into slave work camps.
There will be an equal slaughter and worse refugee exodus if our military is not allowed to complete the mission in IRaq.
Stupidity 101.
Afghan can be solved by using more military troops, but not Iraq?
Sheeeesh. I hope John McCain picks up on this 1) hypocrisy, or 2) inane logic.
BG,
My only question is, when will Petraeus run for President? 2012?
Sending him to CentCom is required to clean up the total area, but one can hope that within four years he gets men with guts and brains like him into important places and replace any leftover baggage that has hurt us in these battlefronts.
Democrats are famous for strawman arguments. They run up all these false arugments that only distract from the real debate and issues.
No one ever said that military was the only solution. That is an attempt to paint Bush and Republicans as war mongers.
Strawman arguments waste critical time. The Republicans all need to shoot this down now! This is an old debate tactic that sidetracks the real issues of how America will truly leave Iraq and Iraqis.
Will they leave them without anyway to defend themselves? Or will they leave them in stable contidions? as an ally? as a friend in the Middle East? Another nation that knows America is their friend?
Bush, McCain, all the Republican leaders need to kick this false attack and strawman argument into great void of leftist lies.
Allowing her statement to continue to roll out as if some luminary vision by MSM must be halted forcefully by all Republican media contacts.
No one ever said this except the Democrat twisted non-think propaganda machine.
Republicans need to attack this repeated lie as propaganda.
And Bush, McCain need to speak forcefully about all the diplomatic efforts working with Iraq to solves these issues.
These truthers are gaining higher ground on false pretenses. Come on Republicans! Rise up and fight this propaganda nonsense!
We cannot afford to lose this Presidential election to the likes of Arianna 4th Dimension Greek Goddess and Guru worshippers.
ughhhh...
Come on now! No one who's been watching this silly pinko libtard since '92 can not suprised by her answers...
The hildahag hasn't shown a single I.Q. point's worth of intelligence or common sense since she went public back in '92 and there's no reason to expect her to do so now...
I actually watched a bit of both days' interviews and without a doubt, a total waste of bandwidth...
Dear Hillary
The only solution in Iraq and A-stan is: Find the terrorists. Kill the terrorists. Kill them. Kill them. Kill them. Until they have such high losses that they can't carry on anymore. Until they're so devastated that unconditional surrender is the only option for them.
Iraq needs the US right now. Moving out of Iraq now will destroy the fledgeling democracy there.
Signed,
A European
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OT.. albeit she voted for the Iraq war with "conviction".. gotta give it up for Hillary on this one (well, temporarily anyways)..
Iran files protest at UN over Hillary Clinton's 'obliterate' comment
excerpt:
[Iran has lodged a formal protest at the United Nations over comments by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that the United States would "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Thursday.]
of course what it's really all about is Amadjerkoff's (et al) propaganda re: the US elections, but what else is new.. dang if our enemies rhetoric doesn't remind me of the Dems (especially the Obamessiah's)..
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