HILLARY THE HAWK

Most Americans say they don't want war. Yet the Democrats' only presidential pic is to the right of Obama on foreign policy and all the GOP candidates are hawks except for possibly Rand Paul? Be careful what you wish for--no one knew that George W. Bush would begin a disastrous, hawkish foreign policy when he was elected either. Either you want peace or you don't. Hillary's past positions are hawkish for a Democrat. And you reach peace by electing a hawk? Dream on!

CODEPINK'S MEDEA BENJAMIN: "Announcing her latest campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton declared she was entering the race to be the champion for “everyday Americans.” As a lawmaker and diplomat, however, Clinton has long championed military campaigns that have killed scores of “everyday” people abroad, from Iraq to Yemen. As commander-in-chief, there’s no reason to believe she’d be any less a hawk than she was as the senator who backed George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, or the Secretary of State who encouraged Barack Obama to escalate the war in Afghanistan. If her nomination is as sure a thing as people say, then antiwar organizing needs to start right away."

"n 2011, when the Arab Spring came to Libya, Clinton was the Obama administration’s most forceful advocate for going above and beyond a no-fly zone to depose Muammar Gaddafi, whose U.S.-trained security forces were killing Libyans with the help of weapons and equipment provided by his erstwhile allies in the US, Britain and France. She even out-hawked Robert Gates, the defense secretary first appointed by George W. Bush who was less than enthusiastic about going to war. When Libyan rebels carried out an extrajudicial execution of their country’s former dictator, her response was sociopathic: “We came, we saw, he died,” she said, smiling and laughing. That sent a message that the U.S. would look the other way at crimes committed by allies against its official enemies."

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