Thinkin’bout Stuff

So now the latest version of the truth comes out. Hillary Rodham Clinton DOES believe in timetables for withdrawal of troops. Not only that, we now have a new 4-year rule for presidents (8-year if you are re-elected). From Yahoo! News (AP):

Hillary Rodham Clinton [comment: who always must be referred to using the three-name variation now] said Sunday that President Bush should withdraw all troops from Iraq before he leaves office, asserting it would be “the height of irresponsibility” to pass the war along to the next commander in chief.

“This was his decision to go to war with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy,” the Democratic senator from New York said her in initial presidential campaign swing through Iowa.

Yep, and you voted for it and your hubby thought of the idea first and might have acted on it if he wasn’t so damn busy lying to the American public, trying to redefine the meaning of the word “is”, and marching our country down a path where children now believe oral sex isn’t really sex because Bill Clinton told them so… but I digress.

“We expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office” in January 2009, the former first lady said.

Aside from the obvious implication that, if elected president, Hillary Rodham Clinton expects all problems to be solved before she takes office because she has no actual ideas or plans for combating minor things like terrorism and war. Besides, who has time for that? We must get about the business of redistributing wealth and moving the United States closer to her vision of a Peoples’ Republic of American States.

“I am going to level with you, the president has said this is going to be left to his successor,” Clinton said. “I think it is the height of irresponsibility and I really resent it.”

Don’t worry about it Hillary Rodham Clinton, I’m sure we can find a president willing to continue the fight against terrorism; no need for you to resent it, it’s not like you HAVE to be president is it? Too bad Hillary Rodham Clinton can only think in terms of now while our enemy thinks in terms of decades. Remember that when she discusses the future; it’s probably a future that only includes a few months or so, unless we are discussing ways to permanently alter the tax code so that folks who currently pay no taxes will actually get large “refunds” of money they never paid which will of course need to come from the pockets of taxpaying Americans.

Our next president will undoubtedly face a huge challenge and can either fight our enemy where they live or ignore them and hope they go away:

Bush describes Iraq as the central front in the global fight against terrorism that began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “The war on terror will be a problem for the next president. Presidents after me will be confronting … an enemy that would like to strike the United States again,”

This is what Hillary Rodham Clinton resents. President Bush needs to solve this problem before her coronation. 

The AP article does not outline, in any detail, the new requirement of our presidents to wrap up wars within their own term in office, but I suppose we can extrapolate a bit based upon what we do know:

• Any president who enters into a war must finish that war within his/her presidency
• If you can not be certain this is possible, you must not fight a war, even after your country is attacked
• If the war must begin close to the end of your presidency, you must first gain permission from any left-wing candidates who may whine if we are still actively engaged with the enemy when they might potentially take office
• If, for whatever reason, a war appears destined to extend beyond your presidency, you must declare victory (if a Democrat) or admit defeat (if a Republican) and pull out immediately without any regard to the consequences.
• Under no circumstances should any war be viewed as a valid defense of our country unless the president is a Democrat and has properly justified the war by means of lies and deceit (please see Kennedy and Johnson)
• If, during any war, or while defending against any terrorist action or insurgency, a Republican president determines that the enemy has chosen to actually fight back and behave as if there was no script that must be followed, he must admit defeat and must confess that he lied to bring us into the conflict, regardless of how many experts and politicians not only supported the war at the inception, but fell all over themselves to sound like they were the ones pushing the idea for war in the wake of the war’s catalysts (please see 9/11, Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and dozens of others who hope you have very short memories and who pretty much think you’re stupid)

Perhaps these rules were already in place during Bill Clinton’s presidency (who did not insist on being called William Jefferson Clinton); might explain why he did essentially nothing to defend this country after repeated attacks (on American soil here at home, on American soil at our embassies, against American warships (USS Cole) and troops (Black Hawk Down for example). Heck, President Clinton did so little, it’s no wonder the terrorists thought they could just keep hitting us without us hitting back.

Now that we are hitting back, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who thought it was a good idea when the polls were for it, wants us to stop. Oh, right, she wants to send more troops to Afghanistan, but she doesn’t even explain what purpose those troops would serve; whereas in Iraq, where there is a clearly defined role for the additional troops, where the military is requesting more troops, where the real battle against terrorism has the most active front… that’s where she believes we should just leave. 

Not only that, she wants us to pull funding for Iraqi forces if they don’t do a better job of fighting for themselves. Using that theory of behavior modification, when Johnny can’t read, maybe we should pull funding from the schools.. that will make them teach better!

While we are at it, tell doctors looking for a cure for AIDS they have one year to show progress or we’re pull their funding too. This is good stuff Hillary Rodham Clinton is coming up with. All we need to do to be successful at anything is to threaten to pull funding and then actually pull it if results are not forthcoming in a few months.

After all, it would be the height of irresponsibility to continue the fight against AIDS, or cancer, or even terrorism beyond the term of the president and we should resent it. 

Perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton has a point. Instead of rallying cries like “Remember the Maine”, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”, “9/11… We will never forget”, we can take our cue from the words of inspiration that echoed through the halls of the Whitehouse during the Clinton years: Pull out now!

Others thinkin’ about this topic: Decision ‘08, Welcome Gina Cobb readers (one of my favorite blogs)

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