Hillary's *full* response on nuclear weapons

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 9:30 PM PDT

2007/08/02 · 21:30

The reports today on Hillary's response regarding nuclear weapons were truncated, and thus left out valuable information for understanding what she meant. See the fuller report below.

Here's the report from Newsday:

A smile darted onto Clinton's face Thursday when she was read Obama's comment during a Capitol Hill news conference several hours later.

"I think that presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons," she said. "And I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. But I think we'll leave it at that, because I don't know the circumstances in which he was responding."

What can we gather from this? That upon hearing the quote about Obama taking the nuclear option off the table, Hillary did not know the specific circumstances he was or was not referring to. Therefore she repeated the very sensible and general advice that U.S. Presidents should not make blanket statements on this topic (but refused to comment more because she didn't know the circumstances he was referring to).

Sounds very reasonable to me.

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