Seriously, has she? Is there any US military ‘intervention’ (killing people) that Hillary Clinton ever opposed?
She has been in the national public’s eye for 24 years, and she has consistently supported the use of military violence. She was wrong on Iraq, wrong on Libya, wrong on Syria (where she wanted US missile attacks and was over-ruled by President Obama and others).
During Bill’s presidency she supported US militarily-imposed sanctions on Iraq, which 60 Minutes reported had killed 500,000 Iraqi children. (“It was worth the price,” affirmed Hillary’s “special place in Hell" endorser, Madeleine Albright.)
The death and devastation of those foreign policy disasters is beyond our comprehension. Words here don’t do it justice, google for any of the videos showing the human suffering, the miles of utterly destroyed apartment buildings and whole towns, the children dead and maimed. (Imagine, if a foreign power had done this to the USA.)
Hillary has said her Iraq vote was “a mistake”— but what lessons did she learn? Just last week she welcomed the campaign endorsement of Robert Kagan — co-founder of the infamous “PNAC” which urged US invasion of Iraq by 1998. Kagan and his neo-con cohorts (Perle, Bolton, Abrams, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Podhoretz, etc.) are the same ones who helped drive the US into our worst foreign policy disaster, ever.
If Hillary even talks about Iraq, it is almost always with an eye on US voters, in her Identity Politics Centrifuge. “Muslim-American voters."“Jewish-American voters."“Military vet voters.” Not about the hundreds of thousands of deaths (700,000 in Iraq by 2008, alone), millions of casualties, and destruction of entire countries.
Against that backdrop, Hillary seems most comfortable when she takes on the talking-points of her single-largest donor, Haim Saban ($13 million to the Clintons), and his good friend, Likud right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu. A military attack on Iran, for example, undermining the Obama-Kerry nuclear deal, would suit them just fine.
Given her track record, the burden of proof falls on those who want to turn a blind eye to Hillary Clinton’s war-mongering. A vote for Hillary is a vote for war. One cannot 'support the candidate but oppose her policies,' that doesn't fly. Hillary has supported wars her entire national career. Everyone who votes or campaigns for her needs to shoulder that burden.
