Clinton sending DVDs about how to exit Iraq
Clinton is mailing DVDs to Iowa democrats to promote her Iraq plan. Think she's taking any policy cues from Ron Paul? She voted for the war. Several weeks ago she had the 'courage' to vote to de-fund the war - AFTER it was clear the measure could not pass. This is not leadership at all and I hope people aren't falling for it but people seem to lap it up.
As I write it occurs to me that so many of the candidates here are focusing on the war and/or illegal immigration with their messages. Those seem to be the 2 hottest topics right now. Ron Paul has a strong message on these - we just have to get the message into the ears of Iowans.
Here's the article (DM Register):
Democrats throughout Iowa will get a DVD in their mailboxes from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that explains her plan to end the war in Iraq.
Campaign staff for Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, said the DVD includes a conversation Clinton had with Iowans in Muscatine about the war, commentary from former Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is campaigning on her behalf, and comments from other supporters.
The DVD is expected to arrive in mailboxes early next week, her staff said.
Clinton has said she would start bringing troops home from Iraq within 60 days of becoming president, if she's elected. Her plan focuses as much on stabilizing Iraq after U.S. troops are gone as on bringing them home.
She says she would pull together key allies and people from countries bordering Iraq to mediate among sectarian groups in Iraq, and dissuade Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria from getting involved in civil war in Iraq, either directly or indirectly. She would also “order specialized units to engage in narrow and targeted operations” against al Qaida and other terrorist organizations in the region.
Clinton has said the best way to end the war is for Congress to pass a measure deauthorizing President Bush from continuing to deploy troops in Iraq. Clinton opposes setting a firm timetable for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq. She has said she opposes cutting funding for combat but voted against a $120 billion Iraq supplemental measure in May.
“I have said consistently that if (President Bush) doesn’t end the war in Iraq, I will,” Clinton says in the video. “When I am president, what I intend to do is send out a clear message to the rest of the world that diplomacy is back.”
The DVD also has comments from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame, the ex-CIA spy who was outed by Bush’s advisers.
Clinton’s staff declined to say how many DVDs are being mailed, how much the effort cost, or whether Iowans will be the only recipients.
