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She is in the background, sitting behind a desk with a placard bearing the words "MRS CLINTON", and is wearing a blue suit. A man wearing a black suit sits behind Clinton, taking notes.|Clinton listens as the [[Chief of Naval Operations|chief of naval operations]], Admiral [[Michael Mullen]], responds to a question during his 2007 confirmation hearing with the [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Senate Armed Services Committee]].]] Clinton opposed the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007]], for both military and domestic political reasons (by the following year, she was privately acknowledging the surge had been successful).{{efn|General [[Jack Keane]], one of the architects of the surge, later related that he tried to convince Clinton of its merits at the time, but that she felt it would not succeed and that U.S. casualties would be too high. Keane said that sometime during 2008 she told him, "You were right, this really did work".<ref name="landler-nytm"/> In 2014, Secretary of Defense Gates related that after Clinton had left the Senate and become Secretary of State, she told President Obama that her opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge had been political, due to her facing a strong challenge from the anti-Iraq War Obama in the upcoming Democratic presidential primary. Gates also quotes Clinton as saying, "The Iraq surge worked."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/01/10/_hillary_told_the_president_that_her_opposition_to_the_surge_in_iraq_had.html |title=Hillary Told the President That Her Opposition to the Surge in Iraq Had Been Political |author=Weigel, David |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=January 10, 2014}}</ref> Clinton responded that Gates had misinterpreted her remark regarding the reason for her opposition.<ref name="landler-nytm"/>}} In March of that year, she voted in favor of a war-spending bill that required President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by a deadline; it passed almost completely along party lines<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bush Repeats Veto Threat on Spending Bill That Includes Iraq Withdrawal Timetable |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/03/28/bush-repeats-veto-threat-on-spending-bill-that-includes-iraq-withdrawa-687978709/ |publisher=[[Fox News Channel]] |date=March 28, 2007 |access-date=September 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227190747/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/03/28/bush-repeats-veto-threat-on-spending-bill-that-includes-iraq-withdrawa-687978709/ |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but was subsequently vetoed by Bush. In May, a compromise war funding bill that removed withdrawal deadlines but tied funding to progress benchmarks for the Iraqi government passed the Senate by a vote of 80–14 and would be signed by Bush; Clinton was one of those who voted against it.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/24/iraq.funding/index.html |title=House, Senate pass war funding bill |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=May 25, 2007}}</ref> She responded to General [[David Petraeus]]'s September 2007 [[Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq]] by saying, "I think that the reports that you provide to us really require a willing suspension of disbelief."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/national/clinton-spars-with-petraeus-on-credibility/62426/ |title=Clinton Spars With Petraeus on Credibility |author=Lake, Eli |work=[[The New York Sun]] |date=September 12, 2007}}</ref> In March 2007, in response to the [[dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy]], Clinton called on Attorney General [[Alberto Gonzales]] to resign.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hillary Clinton Calls for Gonzales' Resignation |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2948538&page=1 |work=[[ABC News]] |date=March 13, 2007}}</ref> Regarding the high-profile, hotly debated immigration reform bill known as the [[Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007]], Clinton cast several votes in support of the bill, which eventually failed to gain [[cloture]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00228 |title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S.1639) |date=June 26, 2007 |publisher=[[United States Senate]]|access-date=April 22, 2008}}</ref> As the [[financial crisis of 2007–08]] reached a peak with the liquidity crisis of September 2008, Clinton supported the [[proposed bailout of the U.S. financial system]], voting in favor of the [[Public Law 110-343|$700 billion law that created]] the [[Troubled Asset Relief Program]], saying it represented the interests of the American people. It passed the Senate 74–25.<ref name="ny1-tarp">{{Cite news |url=http://www.ny1.com/archives/nyc/all-boroughs/2008/10/02/senate-passes-economic-rescue-package-NYC_86538.old.html |title=Senate Passes Economic Rescue Package |publisher=[[NY1 News]] |date=October 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401080451/http://www.ny1.com/archives/nyc/all-boroughs/2008/10/02/senate-passes-economic-rescue-package-NYC_86538.old.html |archive-date=April 1, 2016}}</ref> In 2007, Clinton and Virginia senator [[Jim Webb]] called for an investigation into whether the body armor issued to soldiers in Iraq was adequate.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/12/03/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-hillary-clintons-senate-career |title=10 things you didn't know about Hillary Clinton's senate career |last=O' Shea |first=Jennifer |date=December 3, 2008 |website=[[US News]] |access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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