2006
Senator Clinton’s Empty Rhetoric
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by Jim Kouri, CPP
"When I come to Washington, I feel despair. When I'm in Iraq with my commanders, when I talk to my soldiers and Iraqi leadership, they are not despairing," said General John Abizaid, the head of US Army's Central Command or CENTCOM.
Abizaid was responding to military expert Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose military experience consists of being married to a draft-dodger, and posing for photos with soldiers ordered to do so.
The junior senator from New York said, "Hope is not a strategy. Hortatory talk about what the Iraqi government must do is getting old….. The brutal fact is it is not happening."
While the decorated general attempted to educate the Senate Armed Services Committee about the current situation in Iraq, Sen. Clinton and some others were more interested in creating soundbites for the evening news broadcasts and the newspapers.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Police Service continues to graduate more and more police officers from advanced and specialty courses at the Adnan Training Facility as part of the Iraqi government’s ongoing effort to train its security forces, according to a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police by the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team officials in Iraq.
Several members of NACOP are currently in Iraq assisting with the training of police officers in basic and advanced courses.
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