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McCain to Hillary: When will you apologize for Petraeus remark?
The week continues to get worse for Hillary Clinton, with the latest instance being John McCain’s asking her when she will apologize for the insult she made against General David Petraeus on 9/11/07. Here’s what she said at the time:
Senator Clinton Questions General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Iraq at Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing
Senator Clinton: I want to thank both of you, General Petraeus, Ambassador Crocker, for your long and distinguished service to our nation. Nobody believes that your jobs or the jobs of the thousands of American forces and civilian personnel in Iraq are anything but incredibly difficult.
But today you are testifying about the current status of our policy in Iraq and the prospects of that policy. It is a policy that you have been ordered to implement by the president. And you have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy.
Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.
Here’s video of McCain questioning Senator Clinton, in light of the positive results we’ve seen from the surge, ifshe will apologize for that remark.
As ya’ll know already, I’m beyond the whole “you must apologize” game between the campaigns. Nevertheless, after her Bosnia “slip up” I’ll be interested in seeing how – and if – she responds to McCain’s point about the surge and her September comments at the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing. If she does apologize or express any type of regret whatsoever for what she said, then the far left will paint her as someone all too willing to “bow” to the “pro-war” forces in an attempt at gaining tracition with the political ‘center.’ If she stands by her remarks, she’ll get high marks from the far left, but for anyone else who has paid attention to the progress that has been made in Iraq since the start of the surge, she’ll look poorly informed and/or willfully ignorant of the issue, again for political purposes. Either way, it’s a no-win situation for La Clinton.
Pass the popcorn, will ya? This is gettin’ mighty interestin’. 
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No she should NOT apologize. It would double the insult she has already given. I have had it up to here (he said, indicating a spot by his neck) with insincere mumbly “apologies” which we all damn well know are made merely as a tactical move.
Besides, as much of a liar as she has demonstrated herself to be, who would believe it? Nobody, on either side of the spectrum. Her partisans would smile smugly and shove the issue under the carpet and Petreus would have to soil himself acknowledging her continued existence.
Steve has a good point, but my guess is that Mrs. Clinton will conveniently schedule herself to be on a fact-finding,(fund-raising) mission in the UAE when Petreus is submitting his upcoming report. And, as desperate as this woman appears to be, she may even arrange a little wag-the-dog sniper-fire while walking down an Abu Dhabi street.
The shame of all this is just when an American society believed it could elect a woman or a “black” person to become POTUS, this is the “best” representation the Democratic Party can put forward. Historians may very well write that in this era, the DNC was “Shanghaied” by the radical left of a once respected party that gave us the likes of JFK and FDR. Instead we have one candidate who’s mentor believes we should “God-Damn” America, and another that would hand you a three dollar bill with her husband’s picture on it, and tell you it’s legal tender.
A commodities trader would be a fool not to invest in the popcorn market.
Her comment will probably go like this: based upon what we were told at the time, ad in view of the fact that the Bush admnistration had misled us with false information from the get go on Iraq, it was reasonable for a senator praticing responsibility to be sceptical of anything he or his vast right wing conspircy might say. In addiion, this is old stuff. What is it about you republicans that makes you keep dredging up old stuff that has already been vetted a million times? And let us never forget that this is McCain and Bush’s war.