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ehrnst

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17. What modern Democrat POTUS candidate has ever had a "Neocon ideology of war?"

Reply to Turin_C3PO (Reply #15)

Mon Jun 24, 2019, 09:06 AM

Jun 2019

Or a "warmonger in the neocon sense" as you put it?

During the 1990s, Congressman Sanders voted for and/or otherwise supported:

* Economic sanctions that killed more than a million Iraqi civilians

* Every U.S. bombing of Iraq from 1992 on

* The sending of U.S. military units to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to threaten Iraq because “we cannot tolerate aggression”

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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What Would Bernie Bomb? [View all] DonViejo Jun 2019 OP

It's possible that any of our Dem candidates could end up a war president. Autumn Jun 2019 #1

More likely with someone short-tempered Vegas Roller Jun 2019 #3

You should read up on your choice. Autumn Jun 2019 #4

You think I have not? Vegas Roller Jun 2019 #5

IF your talking about Bernie you have no room to talk. Bernie isn't the only candidate with a record Autumn Jun 2019 #6

It's interesting the history of the Dem primary candidates GOP doesn't go after ehrnst Jun 2019 #16

Not buying what you're selling. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #7

He supported intervention in Haiti, Kosovo, and Rwanda under Bill Clinton Recursion Jun 2019 #8

I just don't think it's right to imply Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #9

Bernie, like any other politician will vote for a war if it's an election year and he thinks ehrnst Jun 2019 #11

I just meant he's not a war monger in the neocon sense. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #12

"In the neocon sense" ehrnst Jun 2019 #14

Neocons have an ideology of war. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #15

What modern Democrat POTUS candidate has ever had a "Neocon ideology of war?" ehrnst Jun 2019 #17

+1000. (nt) ehrnst Jun 2019 #10

... Scurrilous Jun 2019 #2

Who is the only 2020 candidate who voted to bomb Iraq? Bernie voted "No", so who was it? mtnsnake Jun 2019 #13

While in Congress, Bernie voted yes or supported every bombing of Iraq from 1992 on. ehrnst Jun 2019 #18

But did Sanders vote for the Iraq War? No, he did not. So who is the only 2020 candidate who did? mtnsnake Jun 2019 #19

So if a candidate has a long history of voting for military intervention in Iraq, but voted no once ehrnst Jun 2019 #20

Is Biden the ONLY 2020 candidate to have voted for the Iraq War? mtnsnake Jun 2019 #21

How many of the 2020 candidates were even in Congress or the Senate in 2003? ehrnst Jun 2019 #22