2016 Postmortem

EdwardBernays

(3,343 posts) Thu Feb 18, 2016, 10:06 PM Feb 2016

Saudi Arabia, Boeing and the Clintons - what you may not know.

I posted the following as a comment and had a few people ask me to post it as an OP.... the context was "proof" that Hillary is corrupt, and the idea that Hillary is just as bad as all the rest of them, but not better or worse.

I will post links to all the info I based this on at the end for people to learn the facts for themselves.

Anyway, by popular request:

When Hillary was SOS, Saudi Arabia wanted to buy 29 BILLION in arms from Boeing.Israel had to be bribed to not publicly protest it, other allies protested, and even others in State said don't A few months before she signed off on the sale - which she called a "personal priority" - State released a catalogue of all the human rights abuses of Saudi Arabia. They also said that their military was being used to kill civilians. Which it was.

On the other hand, Saudi Arabia donated at least 10m to the Clinton Foundation, and Boeing paid Bill 250,000 for a single speech.

Since that time SA has used those weapons, like the State Department predicted, and like our allies warned, against civilians in SA and Yemen, where they are - with out help - committing grave war crimes.

The other thing to note is that her campaign manager owns the lobbying firm that SA hired to make sure that SA didn't look bad in the US media. And that same lobbying firm - which has donated hundreds of grand to Clinton btw - also lobbies for Boeing.

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To me that goes so far beyond simply not caring about civilians. That is making yourself rich on the back of dead women and children. All the while pretending to be a champion of human rights.

That is MUCH WORSE than anything her opponents have done, IMO, and it's just one of numerous examples of this sort of thing.

Literally, numerous examples, just as bad as this.

So no, I can't look at her and think she, as a human, is any more trustworthy - or worthy of my support - than pretty much anyone else running... Sanders isn't perfect, but you'd be hard pressed to find anything close to that in his history.