i know we’re a little crazy in texas, and i apologize to everyone i know in other countries about george w, but our primary/caucus hybrid isn’t THAT hard to understand.

i know we’re a little crazy in texas, and i apologize to everyone i know in other countries about george w, but our primary/caucus hybrid isn’t THAT hard to understand.

i know we’re a little crazy in texas, and i apologize to everyone i know in other countries about george w, but our primary/caucus hybrid isn’t THAT hard to understand.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4803

Not only is she willing to support military assistance to repressive regimes, she has little concern about controlling weapons that primarily target innocent civilians. Senator Clinton has refused to support the international treaty to ban land mines, which are responsible for killing and maiming thousands of civilians worldwide, a disproportionate percentage of whom have been children.

She was also among a minority of Democratic Senators to side with the Republican majority last year in voting down a Democratic-sponsored resolution restricting U.S. exports of cluster bombs to countries that use them against civilian-populated areas. Each of these cluster bomb contains hundreds of bomblets that are scattered over an area the size of up to four football fields and, with a failure rate of up to 30%, become de facto land mines. As many as 98% of the casualties caused by these weapons are civilians.

Senator Clinton also has a record of dismissing reports by human rights monitors that highlight large-scale attacks against civilians by allied governments. For example, in the face of widespread criticism by reputable human rights organizations over Israel’s systematic assaults against civilian targets in its April 2002 offensive in the West Bank, Senator Clinton co-sponsored a resolution defending the Israeli actions that claimed that they were “necessary steps to provide security to its people by dismantling the terrorist infrastructure in the Palestinian areas.” She opposed UN efforts to investigate alleged war crimes by Israeli occupation forces and criticized President Bush for calling on Israel to pull back from its violent re-conquest of Palestinian cities in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.

Uh-huh. But the Iranians lending support to Iraqi insurgents because they’re afraid of a certain aggressive power using Iraq as a staging area from which to attack them is an entirely incomprehensible concept which can never be allowed into American public discourse…

Hillary is mouthing war with Iran, way ahead. Directly connected to external foreign policy

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/02/america/NA-GEN-US-Clinton-Iran.php

NEW YORK: Calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel’s greatest threats, U.S. senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said “no option can be taken off the table” when dealing with that nation.

“U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons,” the Democrat told a crowd of Israel supporters. “In dealing with this threat … no option can be taken off the table.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank01032006.html

As the top Democratic recipient of pro-Israel funds for the 2006 election cycle thus far, pocketing over $58,000 as of October 31 last year, Senator Clinton now has Iran in her cross-hairs.

During a Hanukkah dinner speech delivered on December 11, hosted by Yeshiva University, Clinton prattled, “I held a series of meetings with Israeli officials [last summer], including the prime minister and the foreign minister and the head of the [Israeli Defense Force] to discuss such challenges we confront. In each of these meetings, we talked at length about the dire threat posed by the potential of a nuclear-armed Iran, not only to Israel, but also to Europe and Russia. Just this week, the new president of Iran made further outrageous comments that attacked Israel’s right to exist that are simply beyond the pale of international discourse and acceptability. During my meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, I was reminded vividly of the threats that Israel faces every hour of every day … It became even more clear how important it is for the United States to stand with Israel …”

As Sen. Clinton embraces Israel’s violence, as well as AIPAC’s duplicitous Iran position, she simultaneously ignores the hostilities inflicted upon Palestine, as numerous Palestinians have been killed during the recent shelling of the Gaza Strip. Over the past weeks Israel continues to mark the occupied territories (they call ‘buffer zones’) like a frothing-mouth K9 on the loose.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/apr/20/comment.iran

This produced a further hardening of US policy in the last years of the Bush administration. In the 2008 US presidential campaign, the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, felt compelled - perhaps against her own better judgment - to use the Iran issue to demonstrate that she could be tougher than John McCain on national security issues.

When she came into office, she was already committed to preventing Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, by military means if necessary. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime had abandoned all restraint in its pursuit of that objective, calculating that its own best chances of survival lay in the swiftest possible acquisition of a nuclear deterrent. In February 2009, an alarming intelligence report reached Washington, suggesting that Tehran - using a secret cascade of its version of the P-2 centrifuge - was much closer to obtaining a bomb than had been thought. In a series of crisis meetings, President Clinton, her new secretary of state, Richard Holbrooke, and her new secretary of defence, Joe Biden, decided that they could afford to wait no longer. Operation Gulf Peace, for which the Pentagon had long made detailed contingency plans, started on March 6 2009.

section 219!

S.970

Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110TFmYpC:e10006:

(d) List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the appropriate congressional committees on the efforts of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism).

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110TFmYpC:e10006:

within it contains all the provision that allows pentagon to allocate resource to start attacking Iran.

It was when people online notice the dangerous similarity that senate start inserting different language.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/054151.php

Hillary was pandering hard to neocon. (her vote was followed by series of speeches in various places, beating the war drum. Youtube has at least 3 records.)

Why do you think I am against Hillary? (You think I particularly care about universal healthcare or what not? both are not going to pass. The budget deficit is $400 and down, while dollar is collapsing. neither of them can make it work. First order of business is to stabilize global economy and prevent dollar collapse.)

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/clinton_vs_obama_the_fact_chec.html

The Facts

Both Clinton and Obama have outlined plans for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. I looked at these plans here and here. While there are some differences between their plans, both candidates have talked about keeping a residual force in Iraq to battle Al-Qaeda and protect U.S. interests in the country. Both candidates have also said that it is in the U.S. “national interest” to counter the influence of Iran.

Here is what Obama had to say on Iraq and Iran in a November 2006 speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs:

It is conceivable that a significantly reduced U.S. force might remain in Iraq for a more extended period of time [if the Iraqi government fulfills a number of conditions, including disbanding militias and moving toward political reconciliation.] Such a reduced but active presence will also send a clear message to hostile countries like Iran and Syria that we intend to remain a key player in this region.

He then called for stepped-up diplomacy, leading to a Middle East Peace conference, and added the following:

Make no mistake - if the Iranians and Syrians think they can use Iraq as another Afghanistan or a staging area from which to attack Israel or other countries, they are badly mistaken. It is in our national interest to prevent this from happening.

Because earlier in the year, Obama co authored a similar measure “The Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007.” asking
“(14) the United States should designate the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which purveys terrorism throughout the Middle East and plays an important role in the Iranian economy, as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, place the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of specially designated global terrorists, and place the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters;
”

so, his measure didn’t pass, and he failed to be present yet again to vote on Kyl Liebermann, and you count that as opposing Kyl Liebermann.
Isn’t it nice? Barack Obama has found the best way of dealing with hard decisions, he just doesn’t show up to vote for them.

Fourth highest absenteism record in the US senate’s history,.. because he was too busy campaigning. Someone who is neglecting their actual job for personal reasons yet still gets paid for said job is normally called a fraud you know, and in a corporation would normally lose that job.

And Liebermann? you mean the same Liebermann who mentored Barack Obama’s career? Please

And you might not want to mention the term “liberal” in the same paragraph with Barack Obama’s name, after all the senator is trying to not appear as one.