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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.Clinton's surge-ery: Now it's working, now it's not
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Reader commentsON MONDAY, Sen. Hillary Clinton said Gen. David Petraeus' troop surge in Iraq is working. On Wednesday she said "it has failed." Wow, success to failure in two days, and without a single decisive battle! That must be some kind of record.
"We've begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in Al-Anbar province, it's working," Clinton told the VFW on Monday. "We're just years too late changing our tactics. We can't ever let that happen again."
She previously (in March and again in May) noted the surge's successes.
The reaction from the left was predictable. She got pounded. So on Wednesday she told the New York Daily News, "The surge was designed to give the Iraqi government time to take steps to ensure a political solution. It has failed."
Her campaign quickly spun her Monday comments as commenting only on the progress in Al-Anbar. But that's not what she said. She said the surge was "working" in "some areas," including Al-Anbar, not only Al-Anbar.
Come on, senator. The American people are not that stupid. The surge clearly is producing some positive results, so it cannot be said to have failed. What can be said is that Sen. Clinton yet again gives the impression that she will say whatever is politically expedient to say and then deny it with a straight face if it comes back to bite her later.
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