34 minutes ago Hillary Clinton supports Obama on Syria

[babsbunny]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/03/hillary-clinton-supports-obama-on-syria/

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(CNN) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backs President Barack Obama's proposal to take military action in Syria, an aide told CNN's Jessica Yellin on Tuesday.

"Secretary Clinton supports the President's effort to enlist the Congress in pursuing a strong and targeted response to the Assad regime's horrific use of chemical weapons," the aide said.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Of course she does.

Would anyone expect different?

[kenny blankenship]

4. The only surprise is that she's not criticising Obama

for not already being at war with Iran.

[potone]

5. No kidding.

One would hardly expect her to oppose it. She has many admirable qualities, but she is something of a hawk in foreign affairs. What I don't understand is why people who should realize how risky this situation is are not worried about the escalation in the number of Syrians who are likely to flee the country as a result of this. Is Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey on board with this? Surely they are the countries that will be most directly affected in addition to the Syrians themselves.

[VanillaRhapsody]

32. 2 million of them have already fled....and that had nothing to do with us.

think about that for a moment...2 million people left their home country....for a life of abject poverty in refugee camps....cause that life is better than the war zone at home. Possibly because they have known for sometime about the low level chemical weapons usage.

[cpwm17]

2. What war has she ever opposed?

besides that one years ago while Bill was at draft age.

[AtomicKitten]

3. She's been advocating for war with Syria for quite a while.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/172774/obama-opposed-syria-war-plan-clinton-petraeus-panetta-gen-dempsey

[bigdarryl]

6. If this thing goes south she's done as a 2016 candidate

Because my word someone to her left will be opposed to this war in the primary.

[brooklynite]

14. Just like she had no traction in 2008 after voting for the Iraq War?

[daleanime]

26. The DNC and the 1% tried to anoint her....

you tell me why she didn't grab the ring.

[brooklynite]

27. She ran a lousy campaign.

Poor planning and bad advisers. In particular her unawareness of how the caucus States would play out.

But she was competitive until the last minute. Show me where her position on Iraq affected her chances.

[daleanime]

28. So what were those few differences between candidates again?

[brooklynite]

29. Policy differences were negligible.

...it was largely a choice between "experience" and perceived leadership ability vs and abstract hope for "change"

(and I say this as someone who volunteered for her campaign)

[daleanime]

31. Negligible....

means that they did exist. Even if you don't want them to. Any your 'willing' to share with us?

[brooklynite]

33. Show me any evidence that it had an impact...

polling data? A critical campaign ad? A debate point? I'm not aware of one.

[daleanime]

34. The Resistance that I seeing......

tells me what I want to know.


Sleep soundly with the knowledge that nobody can force you to think.

[brooklynite]

37. Is that like "the enthusiasm I see on the ground tells me we're going to win"?

A time-honored belief.

[daleanime]

39. No......

more a 'horse and water' bit, nothing to be proud of.

[mike_c]

7. Hillary Clinton has never known a war she didn't like....

eom

[leftstreet]

8. Why didn't she push for this when she was SOS?

To hear Kerry talk you'd think the US should have intervened by now, it's just so fucking dire!

Where was Hillary?

[JI7]

11. she did push for it early on , it was the chemical attacks

which got OBama to respond. but she wanted to arm the rebels early on.

[karynnj]

30. Before the attack?

Her position over the last 2 years were closer to McCain than to Kucinich or even Kerry.

[tazkcmo]

9. Really? Wow!

That was sarcasm.

[n2doc]

10. I was just thinking today that she had been lucky/smart to leave when she did

And then she had to go and ruin it by opening her mouth. I guess the 1%ers are pretty confident that this won't become a debacle like Iraq and lead to people actually voting against war supporters.

[Iggo]

12. Yeah, but I don't.

Gettin' harder and harder to be an anti-war progressive here at the DU. Totally did not see that coming.

Weird.

[jessie04]

15. We are all anti-war...

but we are not...

pro-chemical weapons
pro- murder of 100,000 innocents
pro- sarin gas
pro- 400 gassed children
pro-future biologic and nuclear weapon usage

[Iggo]

17. You're right. We're not.

[NuclearDem]

18. Except you're not anti-war if you're in favor of dropping bombs in response to those other things.

[jessie04]

19. No, I'm not a pacifist.

My idea of progressive liberalism is standing up for innocents and against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

[NuclearDem]

21. And lobbing cruise missiles and bombs at Syria is going to do that how?

I'm not a pacifist either, but not a single goddamned US action in the Middle East has ever worked out for the best or done anything remotely close to saving innocent lives.

I have absolutely no reason to believe this one will either.

[jessie04]

13. I love Hillary.

[philosslayer]

40. As do I

And she has my vote in 2016.

[99Forever]

16. One more reason she should never be President.

They become more Republican every day.

[LittleBlue]

20. She just lost my vote in the general

if she makes it that far.

I will show this to every antiwar person I know so that they can make an informed choice.

Thanks for making it easy for me, Hillary

[antigop]

22. well, well, well... are we surprised? nt

[dflprincess]

23. Like I needed another reason not to support her. n/t

[Sand Wind]

24. Kick, a rational leader. Nt

[jsr]

25. Shocking

[Le Taz Hot]

35. Yeah, like that was a cliffhanger.

[Sand Wind]

36. Love Hillary for Kosovo

[LukeFL]

38. Kick! Love her!