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Bill Clinton: U.S. Should Not Pull Out of Iraq

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Former President Bill Clinton has told Florida Democrats that the U.S. should not withdraw from Iraq until the political situation there is stabilized.

"The representative government in Iraq is a hopeful sign,” Clinton said at a fundraiser for the Florida Democratic party in Orlando on Monday.

"But we need to stay there long enough for the politics to get worked out. If we withdrew tomorrow, that government couldn’t survive.”

Clinton said he opposed the original decision to invade Iraq before military operations in Afghanistan were completed, but warned that more terrorists could emerge from Iraq without a U.S. military presence there.

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  Democrats at the event gave his position on Iraq a lukewarm reception, Florida Today reports.

Clinton didn’t mention his wife Hillary’s political future.

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