Clinton: "Look over here"

Slowly, Clinton Shifts on War, Quieting Foes

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 — A little more than a year ago, before Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the race for the White House, she drew a storm of boos from an audience of liberal Democrats here as she declared that it would be a mistake to set a “date certain” for withdrawing American troops from Iraq.

But before another Democratic audience last month in Des Moines, Mrs. Clinton drew applause when she declared that it was time to begin “ending this war — not next year, not next month, but today.”

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has managed to avoid any accusations of flip-flopping on Iraq.