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Pentagon Rebukes Sen. Clinton on Iraq
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-
N.Y., speaks before a meeting of the National Association of
Counties at the Richmond convention Center, Richmond, Va., Tuesday,
July 17, 2007.
By DEVLIN BARRETT, The Associated Press
2007-07-19 20:34:17.0
http://www.examiner.com/
a-837046~Pentagon_Rebukes_Sen__Clinton_on_Iraq.html
WASHINGTON -
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.
Clinton aides said the letter ignored important military matters
and focuses instead on political payback.
"Redeploying out of Iraq, with the same combination of arrogance
and incompetence with which the Bush administration deployed our
young men and women into Iraq, is completely unacceptable, and our
troops deserve far better," said Reines, who said military leaders
should offer a withdrawal plan rather than "a political plan to
attack those who question them."
As she runs for president, the New York senator has ratcheted up
her criticism of the Bush administration's war effort, answering
critics of her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq invasion by saying
she would end the war if elected president.
Edelman's letter does offer a passing indication the Pentagon
might, in fact, be planning how to withdraw, saying: "We are always
evaluating and planning for possible contingencies. As you know, it
is long-standing departmental policy that operational plans,
including contingency plans, are not released outside of the
department."
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 Democratic ticket would [increase the] risk another
terrorist attack.
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