Glenn Greenwald: Hillary Clinton Has Embraced Some of the Most Brutal Dictators in the World

[marmar]

Published on Mar 24, 2016

http://democracynow.org - With the Republican establishment attempting to stop real estate mogul Donald Trump from receiving the GOP nomination, a new anti-Trump ad produced by the Emergency Committee for Israel alleges that Trump supports dictators. But what about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s record on dictators? Earlier this week, Clinton addressed the annual AIPAC conference, seeking to cast herself as a stronger ally to Israel than Donald Trump. We examine her record on Israel and U.S. foreign relations at large with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept.

[samrock]

1. Yet she is attacked for

signing on to get rid of Saddam Hussein and Mommar Qaddafi .. Show what is it?? she coddles dictators or is a war hawk to get rid of them????

[FlatBaroque]

2. You have to pay into the Clinton Foundation - Saddam, for example did not have that chance

It's a protection racket. The brutal dictators in the Gulf States, well they are quite generous. #ClintonMafia

[Baobab]

3. If SHE didn't embrace them, WHO WOULD?

They may be Bad People, but they're OUR Bad People.

[FlatBaroque]

7. Henry Kissinger, of course.

[Baobab]

4. Cables I think I remember reading showed we were paying Gaddafi to torture dissidents

from other countries. Since he was so well known for doing it.

See Wikileaks >> Cablegate

So I dont think we went to war to get rid of him. Maybe you are confusing him with somebody else.

We set up Saddam and supported him for 30 years armed him, etc, so arguably, we should have gotten a right to remove him when he started trying to steal our friends oil.

[polly7]

5. Both. It's been a game to play one against the other for decades - as long as the west

is profiting by it. The second those in charge of foreign policy see a shiny new opportunity or absolutely crap themselves when one of the leaders of those countries western leaders believe are actually theirs to control, for some strange reason, use their own resources to benefit their own - the formerly friendly 'dictator' (such a useful word for those only able to hear and see western propaganda) is suddenly dangerous and due for regime change,. Study the violence across the world since WW11. It's quite revealing.

[DanTex]

6. Do Glenn's fans here know that he was in favor of the Iraq War?

[EndElectoral]

11. Rather than me, let him respond to your assertion

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1/30/1182442/-Glenn-Greenwald-Responds-to-Widespread-Lies-About-Him-on-Cato-Iraq-War-and-more

When the Iraq War was debated and then commenced, I was not a writer. I was not a journalist. I was not politically engaged or active. I never played any role in political debates or controversies. Unlike the countless beloved Democrats who actually did support the war - including Obama's Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - I had no platform or role in politics of any kind.

I never once wrote in favor of the Iraq War or argued for it in any way, shape or form. Ask anyone who claims that I "supported" the Iraq War to point to a single instance where I ever supported or defended it in any way. There is no such instance. It's a pure fabrication.

[DanTex]

12. LOL. Yeah I remember that. Did he really think nobody was going to look up what he actually wrote?

I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president's performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country.

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/04/glenn-greenwalds-hilarious-denial-about-his-support-for-iraq-war/

[Garrett78]

8. The US has embraced some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world.

Clinton is a symptom and not a cause. Same with Obama. 2 articles worth reading:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/%E2%80%9Cworld%E2%80%99s-oldest-democracy%E2%80%9D-the-myth-the-reality-4/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/24/obamas-cuba-visit-illustrates-us-arrogance/

[revbones]

9. Cue the posts trying to discredit Glenn Greenwald

because if they can throw shade then it would magically refute facts...

[pdsimdars]

10. Me too, waiting for all those shallow, childish, dismissive posts from the Hill supporters

attack the messenger because they can't refute what he says.

And they'll be calling him Right Wing hit piece . . . . waiting for it. It'll be coming. But they don't arrive until later, they have to caucus first to get the meme of the day. . .