Pentagon Attacks Hillary For Aiding “Enemy Propaganda”
Soldier gives the POW’s signal of coercion while shaking Hillary Clinton’s hand
“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.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
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.
Clinton has privately and publicly pushed Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace two months ago to begin drafting the plans for what she said will be a complicated withdrawal of troops, trucks and equipment.
“If we’re not planning for it, it will be difficult to execute it in a safe and efficacious way,” she said then.
The strong wording of the response is unusual, particularly for a missive to a member of the Senate committee with oversight of the Defense Department and its budget.
Edelman is the Undersecretary of defense for policy. He is also a former U.S. ambassador and one-time aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. During the 2004 campaign, Cheney told Iowa voters that electing the Democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards would risk another terrorist attack.
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Outstanding photo!
Soldier, you were my hero already…now this! I would like to buy you a steak dinner.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:44 amOUTSTANDNING
July 19th, 2007 at 11:58 amI LOVE the look on his face! It’s like “Oh yeah, I’m smilin’ for real”….LOL!
July 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pmThis is an old pic. Use to jave it on my bulliten board at work. Came out about the same time as the “Halp us Jon Cary we R stuk in Irak” pic. Smart AND clever….
Nice job.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:23 pmYeah, I got pic in an email a while back. It’s still brilliant! I do, however, have issue with the “smartest woman on earth” statment. Please give my sex a little more credit.
Interesting story.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:43 pmomg how funny! and its nice to see someone stand up to hillary.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pmLady Angler:
The ladies in here are a cut above her thighness. We would never denigrate our patriotic women.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:38 pm“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.”
Threatening Slick Willy always works for her but a man will tell her to go F herself. Senator? HA!
July 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pmI have seen this pic before but it always makes me laugh. I think I saw it on this blog actually. Either way it is funny.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:49 pmHillary Clinton, (a.k.a. Cankles), is a domineering bully.
She has bullied the Secret Service in the past, and now she’s trying to bully a subordinate of Gates.
Instead of taking the matter up with the undersecretary, (duh, who answers to Gates), she should be taking the matter up with GATES, - which interestingly, is the eventual conclusion that she came to after having been bitchslapped for not thinking before running her mouth IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Excellent job, Eric Edelman, Mr. Undersecretary of defense. Don’t take any shit from this pompous Empress-To-Be.
…this is why she’ll never be president.
July 19th, 2007 at 3:46 pmHey Pat, Your getting traction, They just put it on Drudge, Congrats.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:25 pmI saw that Drudge article too. Seems a Code Pinker (Pinko?) in the Senate gallery shouted out “Senate, listen to the American People”! During a teleconference with the US Ambassador to Iraq. I wholeheartedly agree…..Senate, shut the F*** up and stay out of the way.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:13 pm