'Monster' Slip: Obama's Iraq Plan Just Words (Video)

Sheesh. You can't make this stuff up. Before she resigned for calling Hillary Clinton a 'monster,' Obama's senior foreign policy adviser Samantha 'Monster' Power told the BBC not to take seriously Obama's pledge to get the troops home in 16 months! A statement by Hillary Clinton follows the video clip. I wonder how Obama is going to blame this one on Hillary.


“This is the latest example of promising the American people one thing on the campaign trail and telling people in other countries another. We saw this with NAFTA as well. He’s attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date and now we learned that he doesn’t have one. In fact, he doesn’t have a plan at all, according to his top foreign-policy advisor. If he keeps telling people one thing while his campaign tells people abroad something else, I’m not sure what the American people should believe.” -- Hillary Clinton

BBC Transcript: STEPHEN SACKUR: Let me stop you just for a moment. You said that he’ll revisit it when he goes to the White House. So what the American public thinks is a commitment to get combat forces out within sixteen months, isn’t a commitment isn’t it?

POWER: You can’t make a commitment in whatever month we’re in now, in March of 2008 about what circumstances are gonna be like in Jan. 2009. . He will of course not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or as a US senator. . .

SACKUR: Ok, so the 16 months is negotiable?

POWER: It’s the best case scenario

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