Originally Posted By: the G-man
Pentagon Tells Hillary:You're Aiding the Enemy

  • 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.

    "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."


 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Heh, the Pentagon in this case turns out to be one Eric Edelman, a former U.S. ambassador and one-time aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.


Sure, just accuse the guy of partisanship, MEM, and ignore that Edelman makes a very clear and logical point.

Calling for surrender and retreat of U.S. forces emboldens Al Qaida in Iraq, and unnerves those who are our pro-democracy allies in Iraq.
And the examples he gave of U.S. retreat leaving innocent people to be slaughtered, as demonstrated in past examples in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia are also logical and clear.
Precisely how are these points "partisan"", MEM ?

If Democrats were suggesting a more supportive U.S. role, or pressing for Iraqi democratic military forces to be more self-reliant, I'd say Democrats were giving constructive pressure toward victory.
But they're not.
They're calling for complete withdrawal, and abandonment. Hillary among them.

Looking back at the Democrats' many destructive actions against our nation's morale, against our troops, and against victory in Iraq over the last 6 years, what would Democats need to do for you to finally say Democrats are aiding the enemy ?

It seems to me that no matter how divisive and destructive, you and other Democrats label it as "supporting our troops".