Madame Hillary: "Start Thinking of Iraq As A Business Opportunity" more quotes & commentary here:

[amborin]

Eight years after the disastrous Iraq invasion that she advance-approved, Hillary spoke as Secretary of State to thirty senior US corporate executives gathered at a State Department Roundtable on Investment Opportunities in Iraq. “Iraq,” Madame Secretary Clinton informed her guests, “has one of the largest customer bases in the entire Arab world.

“David, tell me something interesting.” That was then First Lady Hillary Clinton’s weary and exasperated response – as head of the White House’s health reform initiative – to Harvard medical professor David Himmelstein in 1993. Himmelstein was head of Physicians for a National Health Program. He had just told her about the remarkable possibilities of a comprehensive, single-payer “Canadian style” health plan, supported by more than two-thirds of the U.S. public. Beyond backing by a citizen super-majority, Himmelstein noted, single-payer would provide comprehensive coverage to the nation’s 40 million uninsured while retaining free choice in doctor selection and being certified by the Congressional Budget Office as “the most cost-effective plan on offer.”

There was no dishonesty in Hillary’s dismissive remark. Consistent with her neoliberal DLC world view, she really was bored and irritated by Himmelstein’s pitch. Along with the big insurance companies they deceptively railed against, the Clintons decided from the start to exclude the popular, social-democratic health insurance alternative (single-payer) from the national health care “discussion.” (Obama would do the same exact same thing in 2009.)

“I was a [Barry] Goldwater Girl” as a teenager,” she recalled. “But…after leaving Main South [High School], I went to Wellesley [College], still a Republican, but [with] a different kind of attitude….and then gradually over time in college and [Yale] law school I evolved my own political beliefs, which frankly are in some ways neither easily defined, they’re not dogmatically Republican, dogmatically Democrat, [not] easily defined as liberal or conservative…”

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/29/quotations-from-madame-hillary/

[TIME TO PANIC]

1. Pretty disturbing.

I don't see how any liberal or progressive could support her.

[PoliticAverse]

2. So Republican, foreign-policy wise. n/t

[pangaia]

3. Talk about Disaster Capitalism !!

THAT was the entire reason for invading Iraq in the first place; to turn it into a gold mine for US and European corporate greed.

I am sure most here have read Naomi Klein, for starters. But if NOT, read SHOCK DOCTRINE.

"The Clintons," are, in my view, right in the middle of the whole pile of garbage.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. It is difficult to define your core beliefs

When you don't have any.

[KingCharlemagne]

5. She channels her inner Louis XIV: "L'etat, c'est moi." - nt

[amborin]

6. kicking...