Clinton looks in danger of following the fateful path of the neocons
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_ id=8495
There aren't many elected officials in Washington who want to throw the gauntlet down on Iran more than Hillary Clinton. The New York senator believes the president has been too soft on the militant Islamic country, claiming that Bush has played down the threat of a nuclear-armed Tehran."I believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations," Clinton told an audience at Princeton University on Jan. 18. "I don't believe you face threats like Iran or North Korea by outsourcing it to others and standing on the sidelines. ... We cannot and should not - must not - permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton added. "In order to prevent that from occurring ... we must move as quickly as feasible for sanctions in the United Nations."
Sen. Clinton has attempted to out-hawk Dubya on other foreign policy matters, as well. From Iraq to Palestine, the Democratic Party's leading lady argues that the current administration has not done enough to combat the threat of terrorism. And like so many other neoconservatives (yes, admit it, Hillary is a bloody neocon), Clinton will never admit that the United States has fallen right into the grasp of al-Qaeda by attempting to fight stateless terror by walloping sovereign Mideast countries
Richard Mellon Scaife, the neocon billionaire philanthropist from Pittsburgh, is just wild about Hillary, who agrees with him that we need to rejuvenate the military and refocus it on Russia, China, and South America. For starters.And to think that we used to laugh when Murray Rothbard joked that we should just invade all the other countries of the world at once and get it over with, once and for all.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/ar chives/020276.html
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, said that the U.S. "should be looking to create an umbrella of deterrence that goes much further than just Israel. Of course I would make it clear to the Iranians that an attack on Israel would incur massive retaliation from the United States, but I would do the same with other countries in the region."(The headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "Clinton vows 'massive' U.S. retaliation if Iran attacks Israel.")
But more on that umbrella...
That umbrella of deterrence would be offered, Clinton suggested, in order to deter other nations in the region "from feeling that they have to acquire nuclear weapons. You can't go to the Saudis or the Kuwaitis or UAE and others who have a legitimate concern about Iran and say: 'Well, don't acquire these weapons to defend yourself' unless you're also willing to say we will provide a deterrent backup and we will let the Iranians know that, yes, an attack on Israel would trigger massive retaliation, but so would an attack on those countries that are willing to go under this security umbrella and forswear their own nuclear ambitions."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/04/clintons-umbrel.html
The evidence is mounting that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a neo-conservative no better than George W. Bush. Her hawkish foreign policy of American exceptionalism, imperial expansionism and giddiness for the use military force makes her a threat to world stability.
Saudi Arabia is NOT our ally no matter what she says. It is just another excuse to go to war with Iran. Iran is not a threat to the United States and is just another reason to expand the war.
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