Clinton said new tactics have brought some success against insurgents, particularly in Iraq's Anbar province.

"It's working. We're just years too late in changing our tactics," she said. "We can't ever let that happen again. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to keep preparing to fight the new war."

I was a little hesitant to say this before, but Hillary coming up with this has moved me squarely into the "not Hillary" camp. The overall on the surge is exactly what was predicted. Violence is down slightly in the troop concentrated areas, but up in others, in other words, it's a wash. Further, the point of the surge was to buttime for the Iraqis to build a unifying government. That clearly isn't happening. The Sunnis have pulled out, the more fundamentalist Muslims (like al-Sadr's wing) have pulled out, the Kurds only interest was hanging around to see what happened and make sure they weren't going to get trampled on again, and NONE of that is working.

Hillary saying this sends not just a mixed message, but a wrong one. It's working so we should get out? WTF? Great, she sends a sop message to moderate Republicans (who hate her and wouldn't vote for her even if you were going to chop off their voting fingers) and to wavering independents (hey Hillary? There AREN'T ANY OF THOSE ANYMORE!) to try to position herself better for the general election. Way to go Hillary, you've just positioned yourself in opposition to the entire base of your party and have been so damn wishy washy about this that people won't trust you because you don't have a solid position.

She voted for the war in 2002, voted for more money at every step, then says she regrets doing so, and now says it's working but we should get out anyway. With the exception of Mike Gravel who I think is kinda nuts, I'll take anyone but Hillary for the Democratic nomination.

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