Richard Holbrooke: A Hillary Clinton Neocon

[Purveyor]

Richard Holbrooke likes Hillary Clinton. In fact he may well be asked to serve as Secretary of State if she is to win the presidential campaign next year. Holbrooke, a Democratic adaptation of Henry Kissinger, loves her approach to foreign policy.

“She is probably more assertive and willing to use force than her husband,” says Holbrooke, a former adviser to Bill Clinton. “Hillary Clinton is a classic national-security Democrat. She is better at framing national-security issues for the current era than her husband was at a common point in his career.”

Holbrooke is an example of just how scary a Clinton administration would be.

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If we track Holbrooke’s recent statements, the disturbing symbiosis between him and figures like uberhawk Paul Wolfowitz is startling.

“In an unguarded moment just before the 2000 election, Richard Holbrooke opened a foreign policy speech with a fawning tribute to his host, Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,” reported First of the Month following the terrorist attacks in 2001.

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http://www.dissidentvoice.org:80/2007/07/richard-holbrooke-a-hillary-clinton-democrat/

[pocoloco]

1. She new exactly what she was doing when she voted for the IWR

and she stands by her vote!

[Forkboy]

2. How nice...

[bonito]

3. People just don't see the aipac angle same as with holy Joe.

:shrug:

[cynatnite]

4. Oh for shit's sake...

of course he's going to praise her. She's running for president and he's hoping for a damn job if she wins.

:eyes:

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. ...

:thumbsup:

[partylessinOhio]

5. I'm not for war, I'm for peace. I hate to think I won't have a candidate

that I can vote for in 2008. I certainly won't vote for any Repug.

I think we may be screwed again.

[farmboxer]

7. I will vote for a Democrat, if it's Hillary, I will "Still" vote for a

Democrat. When I compare Clinton with Bush, well, there is no comparison. I am so tired of hearing all the extreme hatred for Hillary, it reminds me of the Republican campaign against Bill and Hillary while Bill was President. Just compare Bill with Bush. I refuse to cut off my nose to spite my face.

If Hillary so bad; then why do Neocons hated her so much?

[partylessinOhio]

8. War is war. Whether a Bush war or a Hillary war - I don't want either.

Bush won't be running in 2008, so the comparison will be Hillary or another Democrat to one of the Repug candidates.

War is killing us in more ways than dead troops which are the most costly.

The truth is that Democrats enabled Bush to invade Iraq by giving him cart blanche war powers. They surrendered their oversight powers to him. So Democrats own their part of the war. This is very disturbing and really limits who I can support in 2008.

In that respect very few are better than Bush except for Dennis Kucinich.