Hillary on Iraq
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/clinton-obama-r.html
Clinton, Obama Take No Funding Pledge
September 17, 2007 6:19 PM
ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Jonathan Greenberger, and Donna Hunter Report:
Seventy-two hours after MoveOn.org threw down the gauntlet, telling
ABC News that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.,
needed to speak out “sooner and more vocally” in opposition to voting
for an Iraq funding measure that does not include a timetable for
withdrawal, both Democratic presidential contenders have done exactly
that.
“I have voted against funding this war and I will vote against
funding this war as long as it takes,” Clinton told the Service
Employees International Union on Monday in Washington, D.C.
Clinton’s comments came less than 24 hours after Obama made a similar
pledge.
“If there is a funding bill that does not have a timetable for when
we begin withdrawal, and the completion — a plan for how that
withdrawal will proceed — I will not support it,” said Obama on
Sunday during a wide-ranging foreign policy discussion at Des Moines’
First Christian Church.
Prior to Clinton’s Monday pledge, a third Democratic presidential
candidate — Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd — issued a statement saying
the silence from Clinton on funding without a timetable was “deafening.”
A fourth Democratic presidential contender — former North Carolina
Sen. John Edwards — was critical of Clinton and Obama for not
speaking out sooner and more forcefully on the May 24 war funding
bill which did not include a timetable for withdrawal. Like Dodd and
MoveOn.org Executive Director Eli Pariser, Edwards had been
pressuring Clinton and Obama to take a clear stand in advance of the
next war funding vote.