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In reply to the discussion: When I vote for HRC, here is what I'll be voting for [View all]DFW
(54,405 posts)Republicans start wars against people they think won't shoot back, and to help out companies that helped them get into office.
Democrats don't have quite that awful a track record. It is true that Bill Clinton considered Al Qaeda a threat while Bush Lite did not (until it was too late). But the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were initiated, at the end of the day, by Republicans who saw both as profitable ventures (especially Iraq, of course, which couldn't in the slightest be undertaken under the guise of national security without outright lying--not that lying proved any kind of hindrance to them).
Hillary as an eager warmonger is as much as an exaggeration as Bernie as an eager Marxist who wants to nationalize all means of production. Like the old song goes, "it ain't necessarily so."