March 17, 2008

Someone Should Ask Clinton What She Did About Disbanding the Iraqi Army

So today Hillary Clinton is giving a speech explaining why she is better prepared to lead on security matters than is John McCain or Barack Obama. I find that laughable given that she voted for and supported going to war with Iraq, has dialed up tensions with Iran, and has of late spent most of her time talking about securty and foreign policy inventing stories of a fake past in which boldly took tough stands and "led" on complex issues like Rwanda and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Yeah, right. But apropos of the post below about the disbanding of the Iraqi army, something that something like 95% of military analysts think's been an enormous disaster, as Mark Kleiman notes some enterprising reporter should ask her what she did when Bush/Rumsfeld/Bremer disbanded the Iraqi army. After all, she is on Armed Services, and is thereby in charge of monitoring US military moves. Did she take action in response to that move? And if so, what did she do?

Posted by armand at March 17, 2008 10:39 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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What would they have done? I mean, if Bush went with Bremer and cut out Condi and Powell...?

Posted by: binky at March 17, 2008 10:13 PM | PERMALINK

At least brought more attention to the matter and tried to press the government on taking some movie that wouldn't have left hundreds of thousands of militarily-trained Iraqis on the streets, unemployed.

And since he was such an out-of-nowhere move, it would seem perfectly fair to have investigated who decided it and why - and if the level of dysfunctionality in the decision-making process had been revealed and publicized earlier, some of the later disasters might have been lessened.

Posted by: Armand at March 18, 2008 10:18 AM | PERMALINK
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