MSNBC's Hall falsely claimed Clinton and Obama said Iraq surge is "working, so then why not stay longer?"

Published: August 29, 2007, 2:50 pm

Tags: tamron hall, msnbc, msnbc live, 2008 elections, barack obama, government elections, hillary clinton, national security foreign policy, war in iraq

On the August 28 edition of MSNBC Live, while discussing the Iraq war with Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of the anti-Iraq war group VoteVets.org, anchor Tamron Hall claimed that Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and Barack Obama (IL) are "both saying that the new strategy" in Iraq "is working." Tamron went on to ask Soltz: "But do you think that it will start to hurt your organization and others whose message is, you know, that you want the soldiers, the troops home, set a timeline, when you hear from, you know, the two leading candidates for president and Democrats, Clinton and Obama, saying 'Hey, things are working, so then why not stay longer?' " In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, neither Clinton nor Obama has claimed that President Bush's troop increase strategy in Iraq is "working," and neither has advocated "stay[ing] longer." Indeed, both candidates have sponsored legislation (here and here) requiring a gradual

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