Hillary on Iraq: 'Let George do it.'

I keep trying to keep out of politics, but the upcoming presidential campaign keeps drawing me in. So from time-to-time I'm going to jump in and say something. If you don't want to read what I have to say on the subject, please skip anything you see here under the category of "politics."


According to the AP, Hillary Clinton says she thinks President Bush should pull all troops out of Iraq before the next president takes office. She argues it would be irresponsible for him to leave the mess for the next president to clean up.

I find what she has to say surprisingly lame.  If a candidate for president wants to talk about Iraq and irresponsibility, there are far better topics than suggesting Bush tidy up the mess as a courtesy to how successor. And in fact, most Americans, on either side of the aisle, seem to understand that the US has stepped into a lobster trap of a situation.

A lobster trap is something that is very easy to get into and nearly impossible to navigate out of.

I for one, hope this roblem is solved soon.  Extremely soon. But for Hillary to say, "Let George do it," makes me doubt that she has a clue what she will do if she inherits the situation. As the NY Times says in their finest editorial language: "We are not impressed."


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Comments

[Rob La Gesse]

And without getting too political here - there is some evidence that George was led into this lobster trap by the inability of the first Clinton administration to actually *deal* with Al Queda, and Osama - even when he was in out sites.

Personally, any politician that want's things "cleaned up for them" before they take office worries me. George Bush SR was left the Clinton legacy in Somalia. Nixon was left Vietnam. Carter left Iran to Reagan.

A good leader is a good finisher - and I don't want a President that isn't willing to "finish".

Rob

[Ted Koterwas]

While I agree that that is a pretty lame thing for a presidential candidate to say, she is right. Bush started a war he didn't need to start. He made a huge mess out of it, and he should clean it up. Obviously it's not that simple, but the whole matter has been the height of irresponsibility from the beginning, and for a leader who has made such an issue of resolute, strong leadership to leave it to the next president to finish the job is the height of hypocrisy.

And Rob, I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentence, but i think you have two things wrong: Clinton didn't leave Somalia for George Bush SR, it was the other way around, and while Clinton should have been more vigilant, Iraq had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden or terrorism.