WASHINGTON (AFP) — White House hopeful Hillary Clinton insisted Monday that her plans to pull combat troops out of Iraq would represent a triumph for US diplomacy and not defeat at the hands of Al-Qaeda.

The former first lady traded long-distance barbs with Republican John McCain as he visited Baghdad, and also assailed her Democratic rival Barack Obama as failing to match his oratory on Iraq with anti-war action in the US Senate.

McCain's presidential campaign shot back by accusing Clinton of waging "intellectually dishonest attacks," as the Republican senator argued that the Democrats' plans to exit Iraq would signal victory for the extremists of Al-Qaeda.

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