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Hillary: Bush Won't Talk to Bad People
The Bush administration refuses to talk to Iran and Syria because they "won't talk to bad people," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, just back from a trip to Iraq, told Fox's Greta Van Susteren. The U.S. should talk to them, she advised, "because we need to know more about them."
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Recalling that Newt Gingrich had told her that the president's plan has only a 1 in 5 chance of succeeding, Clinton said that this is "not a particularly promising estimate." Speaking of the president's plan for a troop surge of 21,500, she said: "I opposed it based on what I knew about the situation before I went [to Iraq], and I'm even more strongly against it now because I think the chances of success are limited at best."
She bemoaned the resident's failure to increase the numbers of troops at the onset of the war. "We never had enough troops in Iraq - we've all been saying that for many years now," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "Here's what I think we have to do now. I want to cap the number of troops that we have at the number that was in country on Jan. 1. I want to start a phased redeployment of our troops, which I've been for for more than a year and a half.
"I think it's also important though to try to get [Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's] government to deal with some of the political and economic challenges on the ground, which we've all been asking for, but frankly no consequences have ever been imposed. That means get their oil deal done. And I pushed really hard on that when I was there. Reverse the de-Baathification - if you don't give the low-level Baathists some reason to buy in, they're never going to quit supporting the insurgency. Make the constitutional changes that will set in motion a political structure that will try to at least try to recognize minority rights.
"There is no easy one tone answer to this - there has to be a whole symphony of diplomatic, economic, political and military action." The administration, she charged, has pursued a policy that doesn't have much of a chance to succeed.
She parroted the current Democratic Party line that there is no military solution and said that a political solution is required. "You've got to bring everybody in to the game in order to move it forward."
When asked if she was running for president, she ducked the question. © NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved. Editor's note:
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