Hillary Clinton Tells BushTo End War Before Next President Is Sworn In
January 29, 2007
President George W. Bush has the responsibility to end the Iraq war before the next president is sworn into office in 2009, an angry Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told voters in the nation’s first caucus state yesterday.
The former first lady, speaking to hundreds of backers at the frigid Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in eastern Iowa, slammed Bush for repeatedly suggesting the winner of the next election will carry the burden of concluding the most unpopular, costly and bloody conflict since Vietnam.
“It’s the height of irresponsibility and I resent it,” Clinton said at the final public event of a 48-hour whirlwind political tour of the Hawkeye State. New York’s junior senator plans a similar excursion to New Hampshire, the kick-off primary state, next weekend.
Responding to a questioner who wanted to know her plan to end the war, Clinton replied, “We should expect him [Bush] to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.”
In response, the White House issued a statement denouncing Clinton for a “partisan attack that sends the wrong message to our troops, our enemies and the Iraqi people.”
Speaking yesterday at the fairgrounds’ town hall meeting, Clinton seemed looser and more combative than she did at a Saturday forum in Des Moines. At the end of the event, she was surrounded by a 10-deep crowd of admirers, signing autographs and posing for snapshots for an hour after speaking.
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