So what has she been doing about this for the last 5 years? Now that it's important to her campaign to look as if she is against the war, she sings a different song from the one she sang when she voted Bush unprecedented powers to destroy our country's standing and good will around the workd.

What has she been doing for the last 5 years? Do you mean the five years when the Republicans (including Joe Lieberman) were either in the majority or could muster enough votes to filibuster any meaningful discussion of withdrawal?

Too bad she couldn't use all those super-powers Hillary-haters claim she has.

And, the crap about her voting for the AUMF: Most of us Democrats don't approve of it, but if you're too dense to at least understand her reasoning, then you're not qualified to make any kind of political judgments.

And remember: almost 50% of the Democrats have voted for Senator Clinton in this very tight race. If Senator Obama wins the nomination, we're going to need her support and her voters. Unless you want to try to keep your "ideological purity" under President McCain, you should try to keep your hatred in check.

"If it can weaken Obama on the issue and convince voters"

IF the "memo" sent to reporters "alleging" anything is just parroted by "reporters" I guess it could convince voters of most anything. That is if the "reporters" are just a transfer point for whatever BS is alleged by whomsoever has some allegation at the moment.

Man you gotta love the label "reporter" it is exact.

Where are the journalists on this?

Hillary Clinton's speeches are just words which change with every poll. If tomorrow the voters were in support of the war, she'd start chattering about how she voted for it and her opponent was against it from the beginning.

Nice one Judy

"the United States will retain counterterrorism forces in Iraq"

" if you support ending the war you have to acknowledge that Clinton intends to do so."

Um, no. It sounds as though she intends a continued occupation.

"...if you take this plan to be an honest representation of her current views in Iraq, she's solid on the issue."

That's a pretty big IF. Given her bad judgement about invading Iraq in the first place, I think voters have good reasons to be skeptical about her. And is her position that solid? What will make Hillary Clinton's "anti-terrorism force" different from the current ocupation? Which terrorists will they fight, al-Qaeda or the Shia death squads? I say it's time to quit Iraq, completely and permanently.

This is for Hillary Bashers, You better check out Obama and McCain before you start bashing. I just read a lot of things about Obama from the Chicago area. Better check into his Rezko friend and money dealings. It is available.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHsHM0laT8&feature=related

Also if you like War go for McCain. He will carry on the Bush War and it is being called the 100 year war.

I was so excited when I saw your headline: "Hillary Clinton Talks Withdrawal"-- I thought finally, against all expectations, she was thinking of the Democratic Party and the will of the people! But no, it was just more doublespeak from one of the two pro-war candidates. What a let down.

The most convincing Democratic contender on Iraq was neither Clinton nor Obama but Biden. Both the remaining Democratic hopefuls talk about withdrawal in terms of schedules as if they were leaving summer camp. Biden went into the complexity of the situation by suggesting a federatio of substates which could each accommodate one or other of several seemingly irreconcilable ethnic and/or religious groups. Obama seemed less than versed on these problems during the early presidential debates.