UPDATE: Read my follow-up diary – Obama Can’t Protect the Saudi Kingdom .
Where HRC hangs herself with a commitment to the Saudi Kingdom and other Gulf States.
Conservatives aren’t just backing Clinton because Trump is scary| The Intercept |
Clinton has an impressively hawkish track record as a senator and as Secretary of State. She supported the USA Patriot Act, voted for the Iraq invasion. Later, Clinton said that vote was a mistake and blamed the Bush administration for misleading her and other lawmakers.
That explanation is bullshit–she had access to the same info that those who voted against the war did and she still endorsed that horrific, murderous war. She supported the coup in Honduras. She backed the surge in Afghanistan (which produced nothing but more deaths of Afghans and U.S. military personnel). She teamed up with then-CIA Director David Petraeus in 2012 in an effort to convince Obama to authorize a covert plan to arm so-called rebels in Syria.
Is she the ideal candidate for these Republican dissenters? No. But Hillary Clinton is American royalty. It is not shocking that George H.W. Bush–and possibly even Jeb and George W.–would vote for her. She is a known entity. She is predictable. And she is an Empire insider. With all the cards on the table, she’s viewed as the best bet by some really reprehensible people.
- ○ Honduran Democracy Still in Crisis 7 Years After Coup | TeleSur |
○ Lanny Davis, a Clintonista, up to his earlobes in the lobby for Honduras coup players
○ Our Hawk Running the State Department with USIP Support – June 2012
○ Qatar’s Emir Al Thani, Sultan Erdogan and HRC Foreign Policy of Revolutions
Fact-checking the fact-checkers after the debate on arming rebels in Syria
Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton: Foreign Policy Fact-check | Newsweek |
So there were at least six years before Clinton took up the role of secretary of state while ISIS was evolving, and the group’s explosive growth occurred largely after she had left office. The question of whether the withdrawal of U.S. troops aided ISIS’s growth remains open, but Clinton advocated the arming of moderate rebels in Syria as a means of filling the space left behind, according to The New York Times.
It’s well known Hillary Clinton was fervent activist for Libyan intervention and the removal from power of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Libyan arms and jihadists were transported from Libya through Turkey into Northern Syria to fight the proxy war at the behest of Israel to break the Shia crescent running from Teheran, through Baghdad and Damascus into Lebanon, Hezbollah. Three big funders for the Clinton Foundation were Qatar (Muslim Brothers), Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The Gulf States were allied with the US, UK and France for regime change at the outset of the Arab Uprising.
The same trick of secret arms transport (Croatian Pipeline) with logistical support from the same nations were used by the Clinton administration during the Bosnian-Serb war of attrition. Yeah, Clinton certainly has credentials and experience in foreign policy disaster fighting wars by proxy.
○ How ISIS Got Oxygen In Syria and Matured in Iraq
○ Flawed Reasoning and Misleading Projection On ISIL Origin
○ Obama’s Militaristic Policy of Regime Change and Propaganda
