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Showing Original Post only (View all)What Hillary Clinton wants you to forget: Her disastrous record as a war hawk [View all]
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/10/what_hillary_clinton_wants_you_to_forget_her_disastrous_record_as_a_war_hawk/^snip^
Clinton gave her support to the Iran deal yesterday, but she also talked like someone ready to start dropping bombs
Hillary Clinton announced her support for Obamas Iran deal in a speech on Wednesday. It wasnt exactly an act of huge political bravery. The deal is happening. Its secured enough support from Democrats in the Senate to doom any attempts to block it. If Clinton had done anything other than endorsed the deal, she would have created a major headache for herself.
Even so, her speech about the deal highlighted what ought to bebut probably wont bea deeply examined part of her ideology: her hyper-hawkishness.
In the speech, Clinton spent most of her time talking tough, as they say. She flatly declared that the deal did not signal some larger diplomatic opening and insisted that she would not hesitate to take military action if Iran tries to obtain a nuclear weapon. (If the president of Iran casually threatened to bomb the United States, there would be hell to pay, but no matter.) She also pledged to to arm the already-well-stocked Israel even further, and to expand the American military presence around Iran. Never mind that multiple American intelligence estimates have concluded that Iran suspended its quest for a nuclear weapon long ago; we can always use more ships in the Middle East.
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What Hillary Clinton wants you to forget: Her disastrous record as a war hawk [View all]
Motown_Johnny
Jan 2016
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Bernie can lean on His, She has to Hide hers at every turn, Why won't people acknowledge that . n/t
orpupilofnature57
Jan 2016
#1
I don't forget Hillary's record on being a war hawk and I don't forget Sanders
Thinkingabout
Jan 2016
#2
It's ambiguous like their candidates positions on the TPP, Same sex marriage and you fill in the
orpupilofnature57
Jan 2016
#13
It does not change the fact of his votes, Hillary also made decisions based
Thinkingabout
Jan 2016
#23
When you throw rights and lefts like that it looks like you're drowning.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2016
#39
And a close friendship with The King of Extrajudicial Death, Henry Kissinger tops it all off. nt.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#10
She would have already panicked and nuked Iran in response to the capture of the US sailors
tularetom
Jan 2016
#9
She might have tried to invade, since we would still have armies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Motown_Johnny
Jan 2016
#12
Some of this probably is in some way linked to her gender...women are not judged
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#15
After Bloody Maggie Thatcher, Golda Meir, Catherine the Great, how can you say that?
Proserpina
Jan 2016
#20
I get that, yet she seems overly anxious to prove that she isn't like "most women"
tularetom
Jan 2016
#25
There is no psychological hangup about being a woman. They are called traditional gender
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#45
It's the Elephant in the Living Room...or the Very Large Hawk, if you will.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#14
How anyone can support her after that comment and her IWR vote is beyond me. nt
Live and Learn
Jan 2016
#19
Clinton should be kept well away from any red buttons, that is for sure. eom
Betty Karlson
Jan 2016
#18
I assumed she would have a reaction like that. I decided to post this first.
Motown_Johnny
Jan 2016
#53