What do you consider the most SIGNIFICANT experience Hillary has had on foreign policy

[blm]

during her Senate tenure?

[Johnny__Motown]

1. Lunch at a Mexican Restaurant ???

[jakem]

3. she does know her chips y salsa

[Brother_1969]

6. Chocolate is from another country ...

and she has a recipe for chocolate chip cookies

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Hillary-Clintons-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies/Detail.aspx

[my2sense]

18. HeeeHeee

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I needed a good laugh - thanks!

[harun]

2. Talking to Condoleeza Rice on the telephone (n/t)

[Whisp]

4. didn't she save Ireland?

seriously, that's what I heard here some time ago.
sorry no link.

[ccpup]

7. some info for you:

These visits provide a useful insight into Clinton's first lady experience, and how helpful it will be to her if she makes it all the way back to the White House as president. I just spoke to Senator George Mitchell, the Clinton administration's leading Northern Ireland peace negotiator, who said that Hillary was "not involved directly" in the diplomatic negotiations that led to the landmark April 1998 Good Friday agreement on power-sharing. On the other hand, Mitchell credits Clinton with taking an intelligent interest in the issues and getting acquainted with many of the key players.

"She was very much involved in encouraging the emergence of women in the political process in northern Ireland, which was a significant factor in ultimately getting an agreement," Mitchell told me. Mitchell believes that Clinton's time in the White House enabled her to become "personally acquainted" with world leaders, which will help her if she becomes president.

Chris Thornton, a political reporter for the Belfast Telegraph, said that Hillary Clinton's visits to northern Ireland contributed to the "mood music" that made an eventual settlement possible, but were hardly key to reaching an agreement. "Would we have reached a settlement without that kind of stuff? Yes. Would we have got one without the intervention of Bill Clinton and George Mitchell? No."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/01/clinton_and_northern_ireland.html

[Whisp]

10. thanks nt

[killbotfactory]

5. Her years of unrelenting support for the Iraq war

[K Gardner]

8. Voting with Republicans in favor of Cluster bombs?

http://bloggy.com/mt/archives/005777.html

Unexploded cluster bombs — anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area — litter homes, gardens and highways in south Lebanon after Israel's 34-day war with Hezbollah militants.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., have long sought to keep cluster bombs from being used near concentrated areas of civilians. They say that as many as 40 percent of the munitions fail to detonate on impact — they can still can explode later — leaving innocent civilians and children vulnerable to injury or death long after hostilities have ceased.

Relief organizations and the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center reported finding evidence that Israel used three types of U.S.-made cluster bombs during the war with Hezbollah militants. Israel also manufactures its own cluster munitions.

"For too long, innocent civilians, not enemy combatants, have suffered the majority of casualties from cluster munitions," Leahy said. "The recent experience in Lebanon is only the latest example of the appalling human toll of injury and death. Strict rules of engagement are long overdue."
The AP story doesn't mention that Clinton and Schumer voted with Republicans on the bill. I had to get that information from Tasini's web site. The roll call vote is here.

[K Gardner]

9. Support of the Military Industrial Complex? (thanks to Orweillian Ghost for the thread .. link...)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2497353

[K Gardner]

11. Not Asking Questions of Condi Rice on IWR...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3881766

Aug. 25, 2007 Concord Monitor: In 2002, Clinton voted to authorize President Bush to go to war in Iraq. Unlike other Democratic presidential candidates who cast the same vote, Clinton has refused to renounce her decision, arguing that the fault lies solely with Bush for launching the conflict.


From the Concord Monitor Interview Dec 21,2007

Clinton: "No, it wasn't Colin Powell. it was Condi Rice. Condi Rice told me specifically when I was still weighing all of the evidence, and I had been to the White House one last time -- I think, if I'm not mistaken, it was Oct. 8 -- and I'd had the whole presentation by the CIA and others and I hadn't asked any questions, I had listened. And I went back to my office, and Condi Rice called me and said, You didn't ask any questions, do you have any questions? I said I only have one: Will you use this authorization to put inspectors back in, so that we can find out whether any of this is true, how much WMD he still has or has reconstituted? She said, Yes, that's what it's intended to do. I think Dick might have gotten confused."

Monitor: And you had no reason to doubt her?

Clinton: "I did not. Because -- certainly I didn't rely on the Bush administration. I did a lot of my own due diligence, I talked to a lot of people in my husband's administration, I talked to Tony Blair, I talked to a lot of sources, and I had the same question: Do you think he still has these kinds of capacities? And the rationale made sense to me."

[housewolf]

12. Traveling to India with Chelsea?

Riding on an elephant?

[XemaSab]

13. Hey, don't disparage that experience!

Has Barack Hussein Obama ever ridden on an elephant? :shrug:

Yeah, that's what I thought. :eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. The war in Iraq.

Clinton's got foriegn policy experience, but it's all terrible.

[Blue State Bandit]

15. Kyl-Leiberman and the IWR

not a good track record in my eyes.

[K Gardner]

16. I'm waiting for Hillary's Legion of Supporters to Weigh in, but all I hear is crickets

[AtomicKitten]

17. She sat next to Biden in the Senate a couple times.