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Clinton cancels Middle East
trip because of ill health

Reuters, by Mohammad Arshad

Original Article

Posted By:FlyRight, 12/11/2012 6:22:33 AM

Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has canceled her trip to Morocco this week for a meeting on the future of Syria's opposition because of a stomach virus, the State Department said on Monday. Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will travel to the meeting in her place. "Since she's still under the weather, we'll be staying put this week instead of heading to North Africa and the Middle East as originally planned," State Department spokesman Philippe Reines said in a statement. "In her place, Deputy Secretary Burns will travel to Marrakech for the Friends of the Syrian People meeting.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 12/11/2012 6:32:48 AM     (No. 9058956)

It´s called a hangover...


Reply 2 - Posted by: Spidey, 12/11/2012 6:34:42 AM     (No. 9058957)

When I look at Britain and Israel´s intelligence gathering and look at ours,i almost cry. What exactly do we have on the origins of Syrian rebels. I´m sure Clapper knows as soon as he sees it on the news.

maybe Hillary ducked out of this because it could hurt her 2016 chances down the road.

Huma just bought a million + condo in Ny with an out of work husband and Hill´´s buying a high end pad on the water in the Hamptons. I think government scale is $175K for these positions so how can they afford all this?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Melkor, 12/11/2012 6:49:29 AM     (No. 9058964)

Ill health? Yay, the people are sick of her!


Reply 4 - Posted by: LittleHoodedMonk, 12/11/2012 6:54:54 AM     (No. 9058966)

I suspect that maybe she forgot to have her food handler run a Geiger counter over some recent meal since all the current talk of a 2016 bid for the pResidency. 0bama needs that open for his "rumored" third FDR-like term. However, as above poster, I suspect that Syria is a "no-win" situation for any diplomat who comes from a democratic country. Whether to continue to support a dictator who slaughters [possibly with chemical weapons] his own people, or the opposition that is made up of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

Either way, wouldn´t look good on PIAPS resume. She would have been smart to send Susan Rice, as a test run for her ambition to be the next Secretary of State.


Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffreyabigail, 12/11/2012 7:08:02 AM     (No. 9058978)

Notice how she´s wearing makeup again?


Reply 6 - Posted by: cartcart, 12/11/2012 7:12:32 AM     (No. 9058980)

Don´t drink the water, Hillary. On the other hand, a good cleanse can be helpful.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Periwinkel, 12/11/2012 7:13:07 AM     (No. 9058981)

Hill sees the middle east mess as coming home to her roost and surmises now may be the time to bow out...if she is going to have a future after her alcohol rehab, diet, facelift and spa time. Old girl must start now pulling herself together for 2015-2016. Plus, she must start now making us forget what a mess she´s made of the State Department and Foreign Policy.

Seriously, just wait till she re-emerges in a year or two...we won´t recognize her.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Nimby, 12/11/2012 7:36:56 AM     (No. 9059013)

She is hunkering down being fed the lies to spout off in the congressional hearing.


Reply 9 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 12/11/2012 7:43:46 AM     (No. 9059024)

To the list of treatments outlined by #7, don´t forget that Hillary´s JustUs Department is busy digging into the process that helped Lance Armstrong keep winning races for years. Debbie Whatshername Schultz could be a likely blood donor for the cause.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Not your typical New Yorker, 12/11/2012 7:49:09 AM     (No. 9059032)

Tsk...so her "one last worldwide fling" vacay is delayed?


Reply 11 - Posted by: Judith, 12/11/2012 8:42:36 AM     (No. 9059118)

If she can cancel an important meeting (bet the middle-east guys said they don´t want to talk to her), she can cancel her other adventures and testify, under oath, about benghazi.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Travis Mcgee, 12/11/2012 8:44:11 AM     (No. 9059121)

I feel sorry for the parasite; not Hillary but the one causing her illness if that indeed is the cause.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 12/11/2012 9:04:52 AM     (No. 9059162)

I´m sure the people who have to share the bathroom on the plane are grateful. Do you think she´ll recover by the next election go round? Hate to see her lose out because of bathroom interruptions.


Reply 14 - Posted by: sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 12/11/2012 9:16:44 AM     (No. 9059190)

Whatever it is must be powerful. Even at this great distance Hillary makes me want to vomit.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator, 12/11/2012 9:32:27 AM     (No. 9059216)

Like Monica said... must have been something I ate.


Reply 16 - Posted by: mickturn, 12/11/2012 11:44:51 AM     (No. 9059606)

Really, Ms. Travel the World and do in new people is tired of the job? Can a witch not like her broom anymore...BS.


Reply 17 - Posted by: bighambone, 12/11/2012 12:15:30 PM     (No. 9059686)

Maybe Hillary has a rip roaring case of the loose poops, but there is room to wonder if she is not taking a pass at recognizing a Syrian rebel faction, as in the last few days there have been stories in the foreign press that most of those Syrian rebel groups are aligning themselves with an Islamic anti-American al Qaeda organization that is operating in rebel held parts of Syria.

Hillary can´t personally publicly recognize such aligned Islamist groups if she intends to run for President in 2016. She will skip out of anything if the result will tend to be adverse to her politically, that´s probably why Susan Rice was sent to the Sunday TV talk shows to blow hot air at the American public concerning the al-Qaeda linked Banghazi attack.


   

 

  


 

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