WASHINGTON - "Hillary Clinton's presidential team took its first shot at Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, slamming her top rival for distorting her position on Iraq.
Obama, hitting Clinton in a sore spot for the second time, had belittled her plan to "cap" troops in Iraq, pointing out he wants to pull all forces from the country by March 31, 2008.
"My understanding is that she calls for a cap on troop levels but does not begin a phased redeployment," Obama (D-Ill.) said in New Hampshire on Monday, visiting the state on the heels of Clinton.
Camp Clinton shot back yesterday that Obama was trying to hoodwink people into thinking Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) doesn't want to start pulling out. "Sen. Obama is mistaken," said Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson, who fired off an e-mail listing Clinton's repeated calls for a "phased redeployment."
"In fact both she and Sen. Obama voted in 2005 to begin such a withdrawal," he said.
Clinton returned from Iraq last month and promised that her proposed bill to cap troops would include redeployment. "Her legislation when introduced will further her longtime call for a phased redeployment from Iraq," said spokesman Philippe Reines, adding the bill will be introduced this week.
Measures that Clinton and Obama voted for in the past failed, and a spokesman for Obama noted tartly that Clinton hasn't set any new dates for removing any troops.
"Only Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the start and only Barack Obama has legislation that would, by force of law, begin a redeployment by May 1, 2007," said spokesman Bill Burton."
Have we become so weakened of will that the democrats are once again arguing as to whom is the better McGovern? They tried this once and old George went down in defeat, but it seems as if it's going to be one helluva rousing contest to decide which of these two is most craven, and therefore most deserving of the democrat nomination.
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