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Hillary Clinton is an OK Senator
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/10/6289/
Hillary told
David Letterman there are "no good options." She is flat wrong.
There are viable options in Iraq. They all involve abandoning the
occupation. This will require a re-bidding process so that
legitimate contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq can begin.
Once Iraq, her neighbors, and our allies are allowed to participate in and provide
security for this rebuilding process, we can extricate our troops so
that they are no longer targets. These procedures can be
supervised by international peacekeepers. Part of the resources
for this reconstruction program can be recovered when various criminal
elements are required to pay restitution for their crimes in this
corporate boondoggle of a war of choice for occupation and exploitation.
Beyond her incapacity (or unwillingness) to see the root of
our problems in Iraq, Hillary showed us her cards during this interview
when she said that she was a Republican in college and those are still
her values. Enough said.
See for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5SbZ3LB_-g
Hillary has triangulated herself out of the Presidential race in 2008.
She apparently lacks not only Bill's charisma, but also his political
acumen. Her refusal to listen to the American people and her bizarre
attempt to present herself as some pitiable "Bush-lite," was a grave
error. Her militant support for Bush's war of choice reveals that she
either did not "get it," or ignored what were fatal consequences.
Even though Hillary lent much substance to her husband's administration,
her support for this war is out of step with America and the rest of the
globe. We have already suffered six years from a president who is
stubbornly out of touch. We cannot afford to do it again.
After Hillary made these bad calls, she made yet another when she
refused to admit that she was wrong. Her lame claim that "if she knew
then what she know now" is a shallow attempt to obscure the issue.
Plenty of people were well aware of the spurious arguments put forth in
favor of "preemptive" war. And the questions raised in the intelligence
community were clear. Her vote to "trust Bush" was an egregious
error.
Stubborn intransigence is the last thing we need right now. Hillary
lost the trust of America. That, plus her baggage, means she can't
win. Cold, shrill, calculating, machinations have destroyed her
credibility. The most useful thing Hillary could do is step aside and
endorse Obama, for the good of the nation.. But I expect that she
won't.
Timothy Flanagan, editor of The Wordsmith Collection
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"This
is, however, all rather banal. Clinton is hardly an obscure figure, and
her support for the Iraq War isn't obscure either. Everyone knows she
backed the war and spent the subsequent years positioning herself as a
leading Democratic hawk. From
smacking
down Howard Dean in December 2003, to calling for a
larger army, to
earning the praise of psychotic
warmonger Marshall Wittman by
attacking
Bush from the right on Iran, she spent years affiliating herself with
the party's miltiaristic wing. "
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/matthew_yglesias/2007/02/hillary_clintons_history_lesso_1.html
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