Via the Associated Press, Pentagon Slams Clinton on Iraq.
ASHINGTON - The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.Good grief. We're a democracy (at least I think we still are) and public discussion about public policies questions, including wars, is part of the equation. And it's up to policy makers to decide when and where we fight wars, not the pentagon brass and their bushie-syncophant spokespeople.
In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.
A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
"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.
He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."
Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called Edelman's answer "at once outrageous and dangerous," and said the senator would respond to his boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
If this thinking has permeated the Pentagon, we're all in a lot of trouble. It's the congress' job to provide oversight. Period. End of story.
The world will be a safer place when all of these asshats are out of government.
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As Walt Kelly's Pogo said 50 years ago: 'We have met the enemy and he is us.' I.e., anyone who doesn't think the way the bushites do is the enemy.
Yes, precisely.
we're all in a lot of trouble.
Edelman is Cheney's man, set in the Defense Dept. to spy on and obstruct Sec. of Defense Gates.
Just as Cheney set John Bolton in State Dept. to obstruct Powell, and Stephen Hadley to spy on Nat'l Security Advisor Condi Rice.
The tentacles of Cheney's shadow government are widespread.
Which is why we should impeach Cheney, who is the center of evil and destructive judgment.
Bush really is bush league in this scheme.
Cheney is scary. I want him out of government, and I want all of his minions rooted out as well.
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