2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrail of blood: Clinton’s hawkishness goes far beyond inflammatory rhetoric
In a stunning demonstration of her failure to absorb even the most basic lessons of the Iraq war, Clinton spearheaded the Obama administrations overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi based on faulty intelligence.
After Gaddafis especially gruesome public lynching by US-backed Libyan rebels in 2011, Clinton could barely contain her excitement, gleefully telling CBS News, We came, we saw, he died.
Libya predictably descended into a lawless haven for extremist groups from across the region, including the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS.
Obama this week called the failure to prepare for the aftermath of Gaddafis overthrow the worst mistake of his presidency.
As secretary of state and the leading champion of the intervention, that planning would surely have been Clintons primary responsibility.
Libya wasnt the only country Clinton meddled in.
Following in the footsteps of her mentor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Clinton supported and legitimized the right-wing Honduran military coup that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya in 2009, plunging Honduras into record-setting violence that sent thousands of children fleeing for their lives.
Clinton later advocated for the deportation of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American refugee children who sought asylum in the US in 2014 to send a message to their parents that just because your child gets across the border, that doesnt mean the child gets to stay.
Nearly a third of those children had fled post-coup violence in Honduras.
Clinton reiterated her support for deporting them as recently as August.
Indigenous rights and environmental activist Berta Cáceres criticized Clintons role in the coup prior to her murder by a Honduran death squad on 3 March.
The Clinton campaign denied that its candidate bore any responsibility for the violence, casting her role in Honduras as active diplomacy. This week, Clinton again defended the overthrow of Zelaya.
Despite the trail of blood she left behind, Clinton remains confident in the righteousness of US-backed regime change.
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apcalc
(4,465 posts)you know they are nucking futs.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)War criminal Henry Kissinger is her biggest cheerleader. PNAC member Robert Kagan is on her staff. She's endorsed by Charles Koch. Certainly a neocons dream come true.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)So tell me again, who is it that meets your judgment? Actually the first part is true, as is the last. Just change "sounds like" to "goes to for funding"
Let me rewrite it for you
When the Left goes to the Right for funding, you know they are........(finish the sentence.)
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)it's also been validated by those in the place to know (excludes DU cheerleaderrs) and have to deal with the consequences, yet it's become yada yada to the Ostrich Crowd. No comment. Plead the DU 5th.
She's the best qualified...regardless of her SOS record, her FBI "record" and her palling around with Repubican war mongers and financiers. And her chief advisor is to be Bill Clinton.
What could possibly go wrong? The Democratic Party. This is NOT who we are.
msongs
(67,502 posts)need an F-35? give him a call
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)That's Civics 101. All of we anti-war people believe that even though we detest our Wars for Convenience, we do not desert the cannon fodder they send.
They are our brothers, sons, daughters, moms etc. They didn't ask for the war...at least those sons and daughters who actually go. Of course, those who send them know it's not their children.
Shame on you, just shame on you for choosing this for a "gotcha".
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Not in the same category at all.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)that our kids just go into the slaughter unarmed? Senator Sanders would vote against sending our kids to die in the first place but Senator Sanders would never vote to send our kids to die unarmed.
Man, that's some damn stone cold thinking you got going on in your head.
I feel sorry for people that have no regard for their fellow human beings.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)Even cheese has an expiration date.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)and a site that hates America and all it stands for.
This makes me support Clinton MORE!
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)YouDig
(2,280 posts)then they are total morons.
Uncle Joe
(58,562 posts)corporate media conglomerate CNN to bring this up, until and unless Hillary is the nominee.
Thanks for the thread, Cheese Sandwich.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)The complete lack of critical thinking is overwhelming. If you were able to make your point legitimately, you wouldn't need to cherry pick nasty bits from random blog posts.
Broward
(1,976 posts)we'd really have problems.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)Its Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth to the Japanese samurai era.
Clinton often reminds me of a Lady Macbeth type.