Mindful of Past, Clinton Cultivates the Military

[Purveyor]

Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as more frustrating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers say.

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Mrs. Clinton, to use a phrase, has been practicing her salute. As a senator and now as a presidential candidate, she has cultivated relationships with generals and admirals, prepped herself on wartime needs and strategy, and traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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For Mrs. Clinton, exhibiting a command of military matters is not just about learning from her husband’s experience. It could be vital to her, as a woman seeking to become a wartime commander in chief, to show the public that she is comfortable with military policy and culture — and with the weight of responsibility that accompanies life-and-death decisions.

It is also part of an effort to shed the image some voters hold of her as an antimilitary liberal, defined by her opposition to the Vietnam War and, now, by her criticism of the Bush administration’s conduct of the war in Iraq.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/us/politics/27brass.html

[azurnoir]

1. So wanting to keep them Iraq is support???

She should promise to restore VA benefits and improve conditions for those who were wounded, for starters.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. she'd drop bombs just to show she has balls. No more Clintons/Bushes