The Ignored Quote
A play on my post of June 4, 2007 (please go read it).
On or about June 21, 2007, Sen. Hillary Clinton said the following at the Take Back America conference sponsored by the extreme leftist group Campaign for America's Future: "We're going to end the war in Iraq and finally bring home the troops . . . The American military has done its job. The American military has succeeded."
Recall, President Bush never said "mission accomplished" yet the liberal extremists and liberal media continue to represent to the American people that he did. The entire theme of the President's May 1, 2003 speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was that though major ground operations had ended in Iraq, the war against terrorists was going to be a long one.
Also, I'm sure it irritates the hate-Bush crowd that the President can actually fly the military fighters he commands; he flew, but did not land, the Navy S-3B Viking interceptor to the Lincoln on May 1, 2003.
Anyway, I have not seen one newspaper article or heard one television news report of Sen. Clinton's comment (I've emailed all my liberal friends at the Boston Globe and invited them to do one honest story in their life; I'll keep you posted).
In the last three weeks Sen. Clinton has said "we are safer than we were" and "the American military has succeeded" and she's not openly praising the President of the United States? I now have to question if the Senator knows that the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief.
A play on my post of June 4, 2007 (please go read it).
On or about June 21, 2007, Sen. Hillary Clinton said the following at the Take Back America conference sponsored by the extreme leftist group Campaign for America's Future: "We're going to end the war in Iraq and finally bring home the troops . . . The American military has done its job. The American military has succeeded."
Recall, President Bush never said "mission accomplished" yet the liberal extremists and liberal media continue to represent to the American people that he did. The entire theme of the President's May 1, 2003 speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was that though major ground operations had ended in Iraq, the war against terrorists was going to be a long one.
Also, I'm sure it irritates the hate-Bush crowd that the President can actually fly the military fighters he commands; he flew, but did not land, the Navy S-3B Viking interceptor to the Lincoln on May 1, 2003.
Anyway, I have not seen one newspaper article or heard one television news report of Sen. Clinton's comment (I've emailed all my liberal friends at the Boston Globe and invited them to do one honest story in their life; I'll keep you posted).
In the last three weeks Sen. Clinton has said "we are safer than we were" and "the American military has succeeded" and she's not openly praising the President of the United States? I now have to question if the Senator knows that the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief.
posted by Zack at 7:23 PM
3 Comments:
Although Bush never said "Mission Accomplished", the fact that he gave a speech under a banner stating such implies his agreement with it! His speeches and their presentation are carefully orchestrated media events. He would have ordered that banner down that day if that wasn't his "message". Bush felt those words to be true then and when they are thrown back in his face he needs to answer for it. Please stop defending him on this, you sound ridiculous.
Anonymous,
Please define "Mission".
The liberal media and the hate-Bush crowd have an entire speech to discern what the President meant by "Mission". Why not use the speech?
Oh, I know, because it's easier to define "mission" as anything that hasn't happened yet and then throw it back in the President's face.
But, please, you define it for us, today.
Yes, the President (well, his advance team) could have ordered the sign down if it did not mesh with his message. Since it meshed perfectly with a portion of his message - that major ground operations were over - he allowed the sailors, who roared their approval of their Commander-in-Chief, to have their fun. God forbid the Commander-in-Chief does anything to lift the morale of our troops, huh? The troops roared their approval so said even my Boston Globe.
Finally, I suppose if you think like Sen. John F. Kerry thinks, you know, that our troops are stupid, well, then you might have another interpretation of the sign.
Anonymous, but please, your definition of "mission"? If you don't supply a definition everyone that reads our exchange will think I've won our little debate.
And, if you have thoughts on Hillary's actual spoken words, not some sign hanging behind her, I'd love to read what you think about our troops succeeding in Iraq.
Finally, you acknowledge that the President "said" Mission Accomplished!! It doesn't matter what the "Mission" was, I just wanted you to admit that Bush endorsed the sentiment of the banner hanging above him. In prior posts, you make it sound like he just walked up, gave his speech and had no idea what message was stated above him because after all he personally didn't hang it up there.(Even in your most recent post you claim that he never said the phrase) So can we all agree that Bush did "say" Mission Accomplished, but his idea of the "Mission" then is different than what the press and many of the American public are making it to be now.
(I will note that Bush did say in his 5/1/03 speech that "Iraq is now free"- but was the country really "free" then? Is it "free" now? Yes, of Saddam, but they are hardly a "free" people.)
As for Hillary, there is alot of intentional gray area in what she is saying about the war. Sure she can say that the "American military has succeeded", but in her mind success may only have meant removing Hussein. If she says we are done there, maybe its because she thinks we've accomplished all we can and nothing more.Definitions of what "success" in Iraq will vary wildly from person to person. All of these recent comments by Hillary can be spun in a variety of ways, and as I said before, intentionally so.
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