{"id":503,"date":"2007-07-20T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/general-clinton-demands-opplan\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T16:19:55","slug":"general-clinton-demands-opplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"General Clinton demands OpPlan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently while I was asleep last night, Hillary Clinton (who acts too much like a man for either me or Elizabeth Edwards<\/a>) was granted a commission in the Armed Forces and immediately promoted to six-star general (for your information, there has been only one six-star general in our history – George Washington who was promoted to that rank in 1975 – that’s on the test, by the way). But anyway, newly commissioned General Clinton has demanded an operational plan for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The response from the Pentagon<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee<\/span>, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon<\/span> to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.<\/p>\n

A copy of Edelman’s response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States<\/span> will abandon its allies in Iraq<\/span>, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam<\/span>, Lebanon<\/span> and Somalia<\/span>,” Edelman wrote.<\/p>\n

He added that “such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Mr Edelman is right. There’s a contingency plan for every movement the military might make – including the defense of\u00c2\u00a0Syracuse, NY from invading multi-tentacled aliens on hover bikes.\u00c2\u00a0For Clinton to think [s]he’s getting out ahead of the Pentagon on this one is just laughable. And besides that, it’s none of h[er] business. [S]he just helps the other 99 Senators write checks for the military, [s]he’s not in charge of overseeing the drafting of Operational Planning.<\/p>\n

But, [s]he thinks [s]he has a campaign issue;<\/p>\n

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She said Edelman had ducked her questions and “instead made spurious arguments to avoid addressing contingency planning.”<\/p>\n

“Undersecretary Edelman has his priorities backward,” Clinton wrote, calling his claim “outrageous and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

She repeated her request for a briefing – classified if necessary – on the issue of end-of-war planning.<\/p>\n

The senator’s spokesman Philippe Reines said: “We sent a serious letter to the Secretary of Defense, and unacceptably got a political response back.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, you got that backwards, Junior – you sent a political letter and got a serious response back. Considering how leaky the Senate has been lately, I wouldn’t give them the plans to install new soda machines in the E-Ring snack bar.<\/p>\n

From Day by Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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