Former Sen. John Edwards' campaign slammed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday for comments she made regarding the troop surge in Iraq.
"Senator Hillary Clinton's view that the president's Iraq policy is 'working' is another instance of a Washington politician trying to have it both ways," said Rep. David Bonior, Edwards' campaign manager. "You cannot be for the President's strategy in Iraq but against the war. The American people deserve straight talk and real answers on Iraq, not double-speak, triangulation, or political positioning."
The Edwards campaign did acknowledge progress in Al-Anbar in the statement, but Bonior added that progress "should not distract us from the fact that pouring more military resources into Iraq is no substitute for the comprehensive national political solution that will ultimately resolve the situation in Iraq. ... By cherry-picking one instance to validate a failed Bush strategy, it risks undermining the effort in the Congress to end this war."
At a VFW convention, Clinton said: "We've begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working. We're just years too late changing our tactics. We can't ever let that again. We can't be fighting the last war, we have to be preparing to fight a new war."
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