That tinfoil hat thing I mentioned...

[pecunium]

Clinton's campaign got a shot across the bow.

Eric Edelman, the Defense Department's undersecretary for policy, offered a sharply worded response, saying such discussions boost the enemy.

''Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,'' Edelman wrote

Since the language of that EO contains this,(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

He is, directly, accusing her of undermining efforts at political reform, by indirectly encouraging the insurgency.

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

It would appear that Shrubco's strategy is to escalate the stakes such that any attempt to curb him veers directly into crisis, and Shrubco believes no one wants another crisis when there's a war on.

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

How long before they freeze her campaign assets for her words?

[kebechet.livejournal.com]

Keith Olbermann's response to this (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859124/) was fantastic.

(A friend shot me a link to your blog. Hello! ;) )

[choirlass.livejournal.com]

Wow! I didn't know he could write like that, he's really good!

[txanne.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, too. They're not usually so unsubtle. And they also seem to have decided that she'll be the nominee. *shudder*

[ad-kay.livejournal.com]

I think Gates pretty much slapped him down, fortunately. I don't think Edelman's the sharpest tool in the shed.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

He seems to be the fellow who first thought of leaking Plame's name.

TK