Republican Rudy Giuliani says Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Hillary Clinton has not stated clear goals for dealing with the Iraq war and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The Clinton campaign disputed the accusation.
Based on Clinton's answers in recent debates, Giuliani said during a town hall meeting yesterday that he cannot figure out her position on Iran.
"We're dealing with a level of ambiguity that I don't believe is a good sign in a would-be commander in chief in a time of war," said Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has positioned himself as the one Republican able to thwart another Clinton presidency.
In a debate late last month, Clinton refused to say whether she would pull all US troops out of Iraq by 2013, what would be the end of her first presidential term.
"It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," she said.
Clinton also ducked a debate question about whether Israel had the right to bomb Iran if Tehran posed a nuclear threat. She called the question a "hypothetical," and said, "That's better not addressed at this time."
Giuliani said he has made it clear that he would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power and would not rule out military action to stop that from happening.
He said the US must win the war in Iraq so that country "will act as an ally for us in the Islamic terrorist war against us."
"If you listen to Democrats and some people in the press, the whole reason we're in Iraq is to figure out how to withdraw," he said.
