DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush should withdraw all U.S. 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.
``We expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office'' in January 2009, the former first lady said.
The White House condemned Clinton's comments as a partisan attack that undermines U.S. soldiers.
About 130,000 American troops are in Iraq and Bush has announced he was sending 21,500 more as part of his new war strategy.
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These comments do not bode well for Hillary Rodham Clinton eyeing the White House. It shows cracks in her character to the effect that she does not measure up to the onus that bears down to any occupant of the White House. She is already evading responsibility before it happens, instead of preparing for that eventuallity She expects the presidency to be like a walk down the rose garden. That kind of mindset has no place in the White House where respose the greatest powers on earth.
It is very presumptuous of candidate Clinton to be dictating the course of history. Whether or not the Iraq war was a mistake or an accident/offshoot of the 9/11 spectre, it is now real time history ongoing. To expect the sitting president to clean up the mess of the world by the wave of a wand, is the height of delusion of any candidate for president. Such delusion renders one unfit to occupy the most powerful position on earth.
