Hillary Clinton, a likely Democratic Party standard-bearer in the 2016 presidential contest, staked out her military-related positions in the 2008 presidential race based on how they would play politically, according to a former secretary of defense who served in both the Obama and Bush administrations. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote in his book that “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:50:10 +0000
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