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SURGE WORKING, BUT TOO LATE: HILL

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton told a veterans group yesterday that President Bush’s troop surge is working – but that it is still time to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.

“It’s working. We’re just years too late in our tactics,” she said, referring to the beefed-up U.S. troop presence battling insurgents in Iraq, including war-torn Anbar province.

“We can’t be fighting the last war. We have to keep preparing to fight the new war. We have to win.

“I think the best way of honoring their service is bringing them home,” she told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City.

Clinton’s positive assessment of the troop surge puts her in agreement with some high-ranking military officials and scholars, but in direct opposition to many fellow Democrats.