Clinton Tough On Iranians In Speech

[papau]

Sen. Hillary Clinton Clinton's speech as she endorsed America's role as a proponent of freedom abroad at Princeton University late yesterday:

... "We must stand on the side of democracy wherever we can help it take hold, not just with speeches, but with support that helps real people take charge of their own lives," the senator said. "We have to approach that enterprise with humility and we have to be willing to analyze and hold accountable the policies that we pursue. It will not further our common goals or our American ideals if we veer away from evidence-based decision-making and substitute instead ideology and arrogance."


....the United States "cannot take any option off the table in sending a clear message to the current leadership of Iran."

.... the United States to move "as quickly as feasible" for UN sanctions.

... Bush erred by 'standing on the sidelines' while Britain, France, and Germany attempted to broker a deal with the Iranians. 'I believe that we lose critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and outsource the negotiations,' she said."

(on Iraq)... "I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment, without limits or end. Nor do I believe that we or should pull out of Iraq immediately," the senator said. "If last December's elections lead to a successful Iraqi government, that should allow us to start drawing down our troops during this year while leaving behind a smaller contingent in safe areas with greater intelligence and quick strike capabilities."


http://www.nysun.com/article/26143?access=879946

Clinton Tough On Iranians In Speech

BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 19, 2006

URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/26143

Senator Clinton last night urged America to take a hard line in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions and suggested that the use of military force to resolve the crisis should not be dismissed.

"We cannot and should not - must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Mrs. Clinton said during a wide-ranging foreign policy speech at Princeton University. "We must move as quickly as feasible for sanctions in the United Nations and we cannot take any option off the table in sending a clear message to the current leadership of Iran."

Mrs. Clinton said a recent series of inflammatory remarks by President Ahmadinejad, including comments denying the Holocaust, were an ominous indication of Iran's intentions when it moved last week to restart its nuclear programs. "Now, he is moving to create his own nuclear reality in line with his despicable rewriting of history," the senator said.

While Mrs. Clinton's comments on Iran were generally in line with the Bush administration's position, she also suggested that President Bush erred by "standing on the sidelines" while Britain, France, and Germany attempted to broker a deal with the Iranians. "I believe that we lose critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and outsource the negotiations," she said.<snip>


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/383990p-325957c.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. never going to vote for this fascist whore

I hereby promise to do everything I can to see her defeated in the primaries. And if she gets the nomination I'm through with this shitfaced excuse for a party.
Up til now I had kept my opinion and opposition to her in abeyance. I would have voted for her in the general against whatever Republican.
But now, after this? NO FUCKING WAY.

[papau]

2. Tough on Iran is bad - or just none of our business?

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[NativeTexan]

3. IRAN is where we should have hit INSTEAD....

....of IRAQ!! THEY were actually a THREAT and BUSH knew it THEN! Now, I am not sure we have the forces if we NEEDED to go in.

I have no problem with Hillary speaking out on this. I had and HAVE a problem with her backing of IRAQ!

Unfortunately, so many of our Dem reps in both houses were afraid of being called "unpatriotic" if they went against aggression after 9/11, even though I know that if I knew, and I did, that Bush was lying from all the way out here in TEXAS, then I KNOW that those in WASHINGTON KNEW IT TOO!! And THAT pisses me off. But we've GOT to take back this government by the shortest and quickest way possible!!