Comments on: Clinton Would Keep Some Troops In Iraq

The Skinny: Democratic Presidential Hopeful Tells N.Y. Times Reduced U.S. Force Needed To Fight al Qaeda

[musty2u]

You'll get more than a cookie at the site that forthepeaple wants you to look at.

[thgdriver]

I love being right, oh how I love it so. When all you libs were posting how it would not be long till we are out of Iraq now that the Demoncrats Control things.

I tried to tell you all that no matter who was in the white house, we are never leaving, we will have permanent bases there, that is just the way it will be. Now even Your "goddess" Hillary can see the big picture.

Name one "Strategic" country (except China & Vietnam) the United States ever got a foothold in and then left. We are in the middle East to stay! Get used to it!

[nadeau4201]

zoo....Ron Paul is a honest decent man but unfortunately people will not see beyond the fact he is a republican from Texas. I first saw him in the documentary "Americas freedom to fascism" then I saw him announce on c-span. He wants to clean up Washington starting with the federal reserve. But people don't care about things like that. They would rather hear about gay rights and abortion.

[Razzl]

Hillary's comments shouldn't bring any special reaction, we would expect after the major withdrawals happen that any president will try to leave some residual forces in sympathetic areas.

Barack has absolutely nothing to hide from about his childhood--he should not make any emphatic statements about not being a Muslim. If his parents put him in various kinds of religious schools during his early childhood that is commendable, doesn't make him somehow sympathetic to Islamism, and makes everyone who claims otherwise a bigot whose upon should not be courted or catered to.

As for McCain, it's tragic that a man who could see the moral light and take the high ground against torture hasn't been able to follow those insights all the way to opposing the rest of the Bush program. I'm grateful for his one act of resistance, but that's not enough. And I think even rank and file Republicans feel that it's not enough.

[marcodele]

Wow. If you want to catch a bunch of idiot neocons, you just put the word 'Hillary' in the rat trap.

[musty2u]

How many years were far fewer troops (whatever that means) in Germany, South Korea, Okinawa, Japan, Phillippines, etc.?

The only way this will work is to flat out knock 'em senseless first. Make them bleed, make them hurt. Fill their sand with bodies. It is too bad that there will be lots of collateral damage in this process, but this could have been avoided if we would extracted enough damage four years ago.

[bushfan3]

OH, now she will keep some troops in Iraq when she wants us to pull them out. What will she think of next.

[jebby_one]

"Did a lot of 'detainees' do bad things? Yes, so take them to court and show everyone what we know...

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Civil rights pertain to CIVILIANS, not enemy combatants. Civilized society gets to act civilized only after the military has made it safe.

It doesn't work the way neo-commie Democrats proclaim. They know that. Neo-commies have a long history of denying people of their rights and are experts at thinning the ranks of those who disagree by sending them to the firing squads following a 2 minute administrative review.

Any rhetoric from the neo-commies about "rights" is all about political opportunism.

[boatdocster]

Sorry, but I don't see how passing a bill to set up secret courts, avoid due legal process and not have to answer to anyone in any way limits the government's control of the American people.

Did a lot of 'detainees' do bad things? Yes, so take them to court and show everyone what we know. It's a fine line between the good of the many and winning the war but Bush and crew and doing a lot of damage in the name of a bogus cause.

Secret prisons and courts typically belonged to the Nazis, Stalin and the KGB and other governements who care nothing about people rights. When we give up those last rights (since Bush has taken away so many other things), we become just like them. Maybe that was GB 41's idea of a new world order.

[motherjones-2009]

Hillary Clinton must have a hide like a rhino. She inspires astonishing vitriol in her detractors. What did she do to become the target of such insane hatred? Besides being female, how is she different than other politicians?