Trail of blood: Clinton’s hawkishness goes far beyond inflammatory rhetoric

[Cheese Sandwich]

While serving as secretary of state, she greenlighted enormous weapons deals to US-backed tyrants, dramatically strengthening the military prowess of despots who happened to be some of the Clinton Foundation’s most generous donors.

In a stunning demonstration of her failure to absorb even the most basic lessons of the Iraq war, Clinton spearheaded the Obama administration’s overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi based on faulty intelligence.

After Gaddafi’s 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 Gaddafi’s overthrow the “worst mistake” of his presidency.

As secretary of state and the leading champion of the intervention, that planning would surely have been Clinton’s primary responsibility.

Libya wasn’t 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 doesn’t 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 Clinton’s 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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excerpt from https://electronicintifada.net/content/hillary-clinton-more-dangerous-donald-trump/16316

[apcalc]

1. When the left sounds like the right

you know they are nucking futs.

[Cheese Sandwich]

2. Which part of that do are you disputing? Aren't these just facts?

[Ash_F]

4. Was backing the coup a good policy?

[HooptieWagon]

5. RWers be cheering her actions.

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]

8. She's bowing down at the Republican Donor Altar as you write.

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]

3. Condi Rice's blood soaked legacy has got nothing on Clinton's.

[libdem4life]

6. The problem with this report is that it's been repeated and repeated, of course,

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]

7. good thing your buddy bernie likes to vote to spends hundreds of billions on war and the MIC ...

need an F-35? give him a call

[libdem4life]

9. What a big shot here...all Congress people have to bring in funding to their states.

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]

12. F-35 may be a boondoggle but it doesn't compare to Hillary's record

Not in the same category at all.

[notadmblnd]

14. Would you feel better if once the war hawks start a war

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]

10. one fan basically said that the Secretary of State has nothing to do with foreign policy

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. Yeah. That was silly.

[zappaman]

13. I'm sure gonna miss your dozens of OPs every day hating on clinton.

Even cheese has an expiration date.

[ericson00]

15. yep, Electronic Intifada; a site that names itself after an Islamist terrorism phenomena

and a site that hates America and all it stands for.

This makes me support Clinton MORE!

[Cheese Sandwich]

17. says you bub

[YouDig]

16. I have no idea what "Electronic Intifida" is but if they think HIllary is more dangerous than Trump

then they are total morons.

[Uncle Joe]

18. Some people would call this promoting violence all over the world but don't expect

corporate media conglomerate CNN to bring this up, until and unless Hillary is the nominee.

Thanks for the thread, Cheese Sandwich.

[wildeyed]

19. Talk about inflammatory rhetoric!

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]

20. At least she didn't throw an imaginary chair then

we'd really have problems.

[Baobab]

21. Throne of Blood is one of my favorite films

Its Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth to the Japanese samurai era.

Clinton often reminds me of a Lady Macbeth type.