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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party ~ Consortiumnews.com [View all]
Exclusive: For nearly a half century since late in the Vietnam War the Democrats have been the less warlike of the two parties, but that has flipped with the choice of war hawk Hillary Clinton, writes Robert Parry.By Robert Parry
The Democratic Party has moved from being what you might call a reluctant war party to an aggressive war party with its selection of Hillary Clinton as its presumptive presidential nominee. With minimal debate, this historic change brings full circle the arc of the partys anti-war attitudes that began in 1968 and have now ended in 2016.
Since the Vietnam War, the Democrats have been viewed as the more peaceful of the two major parties, with the Republicans often attacking Democratic candidates as soft regarding use of military force.
But former Secretary of State Clinton has made it clear that she is eager to use military force to achieve regime change in countries that get in the way of U.S. desires. She abides by neoconservative strategies of violent interventions especially in the Middle East and she strikes a belligerent posture as well toward nuclear-armed Russia and, to a lesser extent, China.
Amid the celebrations about picking the first woman as a major partys presumptive nominee, Democrats appear to have given little thought to the fact that they have abandoned a near half-century standing as the party more skeptical about the use of military force. Clinton is an unabashed war hawk who has shown no inclination to rethink her pro-war attitudes.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/08/democrats-are-now-the-aggressive-war-party/
Note to Jurors:
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s which came close to toppling the Reagan administration. He was an aggressive critic of George W. Bush's neoconservative war policies in Iraq, as well as a critic of President Obama-- where Obama's policies have mimicked the hawkish stance laid down by George W. Bush. Robert Parry is in no way, shape or form a "right-wing source", and anyone who makes such a claim clearly does not know what the hell they are talking about, or they are just flat-out lying because they don't like the content.
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That is what happens, whether it be Repub or Dem, people believe that "MY Party Won'
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#5
"Obama's policies have mimicked the hawkish stance laid down by George W. Bush"?!?
ucrdem
Jun 2016
#6
You wrote it. Own it. How and where exactly do you see this occurring, pray tell?
ucrdem
Jun 2016
#10
arent you glad bernie is such a reliable vote to fund the war and killing machine?
msongs
Jun 2016
#8
So you agreed with the invasion of Iraq? The displacement and kiling of millions, why? nt
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#12
Neo-hippie nonsense. You sound like those Republicans who SWEAR that they know how
BobbyDrake
Jun 2016
#22
No one listens to Trump's claims that he will build our military and 'obliterate' ISIS.
pampango
Jun 2016
#38