Sanders: Clinton's support for the war in Iraq was not just an aberration

[portlander23]

Sanders equates Clinton with Trump on foreign policy
KYLE CHENEY 06/05/16 10:24 AM EDT
Politico

Hillary Clinton has bathed in accolades from Democrats for her scathing speech against Trump’s foreign policy credentials. But in an interview aired Sunday, her rival for the Democratic nomination Bernie Sanders suggested that Clinton’s own foreign policy judgment raises similar concerns.

“I think frankly they both make a point,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the back-and-forth sniping between Trump and Clinton over foreign policy judgment — and who is more likely to get the United States entangled in a new war.

“I think that her support for the war in Iraq was not just an aberration,” he said. “I think that her willingness to push President Obama to overthrow [Libya's Muammar] Qadhafi and lead to the kind of instability we’re seeing now in Libya, not inconsistent with her views on Syria, where she wants a no-fly zone.”

Yep.

[Autumn]

1. She supported the Iraq war because it benefited her politically. She would have lost her

Senate seat otherwise.

[CorporatistNation]

4. TOTALLY... THEN SHE OBFUSCATES AND WORSE....

WANT MORE OF THIS?

e.g., MSNBC To the deniers... Watch THIS Video... It is not comforting to think that she may well be the Democratic Nominee...

Hillary really betrayed Andrea Mitchell... The entire context of this report was of a solemn nature... A Funeral so to speak...

Andrea Mitchell "I do not see this report as ...ANYTHING BUT... DEVASTATING!"

Chuck Todd "After this I don't think that she could get confirmed for Attorney General!"

Lots of FIBBING by Hillary here.. for more than a year!

[A Little Weird]

5. Not just her senate seat

She saw the war as a business opportunity.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251832157

[thesquanderer]

9. I don't think a no vote would have cost her her senate seat in liberal NY. And also...

...if she really did it merely for political expediency, she could have simply voted Yes. She didn't have to make a 20 minute floor speech rallying her colleagues to do the same.

[emulatorloo]

2. "they both make a point". Unclear who Bernie is referring to?

Last edited Sun Jun 5, 2016, 11:40 AM - Edit history (2)

Context of article suggests HRC and Trump.

I can't imagine Bernie saying Trump made a point.

Did you see the interview? I suspect article is wrong.

(Edited for clarity)

[CrowCityDem]

3. Says a guy who voted for a resolution written by RUMSFELD to make regime change official policy.

[Faux pas]

6. Kick!!!

[Doctor_J]

7. Yes, her "apology" is obviously a lie since she's cheered for every war since then as well

IMO everyone who claims to believe a word she says is either lying to themselves or lying to the rest of the world.

[Betty Karlson]

8. Her sincerity on the IWR is about equal to her new-found support for gay rights:

praise Nancy!