[UPDATE: Still waiting for a transcript, but there's no real debate here about whether or not she said it. She did. Commenters to this diary have some interesting takes on why she said it, though. Diary has been retitled.]
Please forgive the fact that I only got to see a few minutes of the debate and haven't yet found a transcript...
But did Hillary Clinton really say that "it's the Iraqis' fault" that they didn't take advantage of their liberation and get control of their country after their elections?
If someone can disabuse me of this notion -- perhaps by posting a link to a transcript -- I'll delete the diary right away.
Otherwise...
It's stunning that Clinton would resort to this line of rhetoric.
It's the Iraqis' fault?
Wow. Did Clinton's consultants focus-group this or something? Do the numbers say that a broad cross-section of the voting populace tend to agree with this notion?
This sort of talk seems over the line for me. How can we be in the middle of an occupation and blame the defeated country for not having control?
This diary is more a question than an answer, because the argument that "it's the Iraqis' fault" has left me gob-smacked.