Speaking to an Arab-language newspaper, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., charged President Bush's "stubborn" policies are endangering the stability of the Middle East.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

The president does not fully understand the situation in Iraq and has no plan, Clinton told the London-based Arab-language daily Asharq al-Awsat, according to Agence France-Presse.

The Bush administration has not been "frank" with the American people about Iraq's financial and human toll, she asserted.

The former first lady, whose remarks were published throughout the Middle East and Muslim world, said the "stubborn and arrogant" Bush administration has refused to admit mistakes which are endangering the lives of Iraqis and American soldiers and threatening stability in the region.

Clinton told the paper, according to AFP, the U.S. is in trouble because it can't abandon Iraq but is unable to provide the necessary manpower to run the country because of its inability to garner international support.

After a December visit to Baghdad during which she sharply criticized the Bush administration, Clinton was accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Clinton insisted she had come to Iraq to tell the troops "Americans are proud" of them, but she said back home "many question the administration's policies."

She then criticized President Bush for having been "obsessed with Saddam Hussein for more than a decade."

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news channel, broadcast her remarks immediately in Arabic translation.

The network also gave prominent play to comments by her traveling companion, Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who said the administration's justification for the war was "tenuous at best" and Americans "could look back and see the decision to attack Iraq was one that ended up being very, very costly."

Former police captain Anwar Ibrahim, Iraq's deputy minister of interior, was asked about the effect of earlier blasts against U.S. leadership by Democratic presidential contenders.

"Our enemies all have satellite television and they are watching," Ibrahim said, according to New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik. "When they hear this kind of thing, they think they are winning."

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