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crankychatter

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Fri Apr-04-08 08:50 AM
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Goddess of Peace?

Edited on Fri Apr-04-08 08:53 AM by crankychatter

a few negatives for ya

Iraq War Vote and subsequent parroting of Administration justifications... include recent assertions that we gave Iraq "the gift of freedom," and blaming THEM for all subsequent mayhem.

Couldn’t be bothered to read the NIE before casting her pro-Iraq war vote

Support of Israel's brutal attack on South Lebanon when even Bush was critical

Opposed banning of landmines

Opposed limiting export of cluster bombs

Giving Bush Green Light to attack Iran with resolution declaring Republican Guard a "terrorist" organization

Voted for Patriot Act

Voted to extend Patriot Act with permanent revocation of our Constitutional Liberties

Criticism of the International Court of Justice for its landmark 2004 advisory ruling that the Fourth Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War is legally binding on all signatory nations.

Has made pro-torture declarations when queried regarding "ticking bomb" scenario

Opposed the complete repeal of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act)

Hillary-care with it's mandates will give a very profitable monopoly to big pharma, big medical and big insurance industry backers... WHILE entrenching us in a system that will be used to justify NEVER moving toward true single-payer which this country desperately needs. Ask ANY government employee and they will tell you that, only the upper grades get Blue Cross... everyone else gets an HMO. HMO's are CLASS GENOCIDE.

Clinton's War Criminal Advisors:
Madeleine Albright, she was the main force behind the Iraq sanctions that killed more than 400,000 Iraqi civilians.

General Wesley Clark, he was the one who ran the bombing of Serbia in the former Yugoslavia, came out and publicly said that he was going after civilian targets, like electrical plants, like the TV station there.

Richard Holbrooke, in the Carter administration he was the one who oversaw the shipment of weapons to the Indonesian military as they were invading—illegally invading East Timor and killing a third of the population there, and he was the one who kept the UN Security Council from enforcing its resolution against that invasion.

Strobe Talbott, he was the one who, during the Clinton administration, oversaw Russia policy, a backing of Yeltsin, which resulted in turning over the national wealth to the oligarchs and a drop in life expectancy in much of Russia of about fifteen years—massive, massive death.

And you have various backers of the Iraq invasion and occupation and the recent escalation, people like General Jack Keane, Michael O’Hanlon and others.

Clinton's Senate Record:
Hillary Clinton, who has been in the Senate for eight years, has authored or co-authored only 20 bills, 15 of which were concerned with honoring this-or-that person, naming roads, bridges, and post offices after them, or designating holidays. While Obama has been working like a house of fire, she’s been a passive space-filler, showing no initiative, and content to sit back, collect a paycheck, and vote on other people’s work.

NOW, we have a candidate that, although not MY first choice and NO saint, has done an end run around the PAC dominated, old school system of campaign financing, with OUR help online. The perception of change from this old system of corruption will motivate MILLIONS of cynical and politically marginalized people in November. Clinton represents the old way... and Americans across the political spectrum are SICK AND TIRED of War Profiteers and Transnational Corporations having more say in our government than WE DO.

I have not mentioned her husband's administration, but if we assume she shares his values I could fill another page with his HORRORS... NAFTA, CAFTA and the WAR ON THE POOR.

Whatever this is, it isn't Democratic Principles.... The DLC is truly a Party within the Party.