Hillary Clinton won't commit on Iraq deadline. She thinks she is at a party at Central Park when she cast her vote defunding the Iraq war. There is a noticiable absence of strength of character when she skirts the issue of a final vote. The most powerful office in the planet calls for more fortitude and backbone and determination without being hemmed in by feminine coyness and pussyfoot tendencies ………..
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton voted Wednesday to advance legislation cutting off money for the Iraq war, but she declined to say whether she would support the measure if it comes to a final vote.
"I'm not going to speculate on what I'm going to be voting on in the future," the New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate said when asked by reporters whether she favored the troop withdrawal legislation.
Clinton sided with 28 other senators who lost a procedural vote on the measure offered by Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis. The amendment would have cut off money for combat operations after March 2008.
Clinton long has resisted calls from those within her own party to impose a specific deadline on troop withdrawal in Iraq — a position that has at times resulted in her being booed by anti-war activists.
"This is consistent with what I've been saying for several years," she said.
Even as she denied there were any mixed signals in her votes and statements on a troop withdrawal, she criticized what she called growing confusion caused by President Bush's Iraq policy, including the appointment this week of a "war czar."
Clinton said she wants her vote to send a message to Iraqi leaders that they have to do more to stabilize their country before the United States will commit to a longer troop presence there.
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