Yikes!… Now Hillary Says She'll Keep Troops in Iraq

Update: Hillary says she’ll ignore genocide!

This (along with the fact that Al Qaeda #3 admitted to planning 9-11 instead of the evil Mr. Bush) ought to send the leftards into a frenzy…
Hillary now promises to “Bring the troops home… Er, sometime later on.”

It must have been polling results day at the Hillary camp…
Add this to Hillary’s many stands on the War in Iraq:
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Her pollsters must have discovered that Americans are not quite ready to feed Iraq to Al Qaeda and Iran just yet.
In what promises to drive the Left batty, Hillary now says she’ll keep troops in Iraq if she wins the election.
The New York Times:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a “remaining military as well as political mission” in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military.

In a half-hour interview on Tuesday in her Senate office, Mrs. Clinton said the scaled-down American military force that she would maintain in Iraq after taking office would stay off the streets in Baghdad and would no longer try to protect Iraqis from sectarian violence — even if it descended into ethnic cleansing.

In outlining how she would handle Iraq as commander in chief, Mrs. Clinton articulated a more-nuanced position than the one she has provided at her campaign events, where she has backed the goal of “bringing the troops home.”

She said in the interview that there were “remaining vital national security interests in Iraq” that would require a continuing deployment of American troops.

The United States’ security would be undermined if parts of Iraq turned into a failed state “that serves as a petri dish for insurgents and Al Qaeda,” she said. “It is right in the heart of the oil region. It is directly in opposition to our interests, to the interests of regimes, to Israel’s interests.”

Maybe I’m just dreaming this, but did a democrat just admit that Al Qaeda is actually operating in Iraq?…
Gee… That only took 4 years!

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