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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:09 AM Jun 2013

Bill Clinton Urges More Forceful U.S. Response On Syria - Report

WASHINGTON | Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:30pm IST
(Reuters) - As the Obama administration considers whether to arm Syrian rebels, former President Bill Clinton increased pressure for a stronger U.S. role in Syria's civil war, short of sending in U.S. troops, according to a report.

"Nobody is asking for American soldiers in Syria," Clinton said, according to the report from the newspaper Politico published late Wednesday.

"The only question is: now that the Russians, the Iranians and the Hezbollah are in there head over heels ... should we try to do something to try to slow their gains and rebalance the power so that these rebel groups have a decent chance, if they're supported by a majority of the people, to prevail?"

Clinton made the remarks at a closed-press event earlier this week with Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, one of the fiercest critics of President Barack Obama's unwillingness so far to provide direct military support to the rebels opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/usa-syria-clinton-idINDEE95C0E020130613

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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
2. WTF is Bill Clinton doing giving press conferences on foreign policy? And with bloody McCain?
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:25 AM
Jun 2013

Your terms are OVER Bill. OVER! And your wife isn't SOS anymore.

And McCain is NOT our friend and neither obviously are you.

Shut up and do something useful like calling George Bush Sr to see if your golfing buddy wants to hang out with you.

Or better yet, how about you and Dubya sit down and give us a thorough accounting of to whom and where all the Haiti Funds went?

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
4. good question. wtf is his problem?
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 01:09 AM
Jun 2013

here's a post i did on the bush-clinton aid to (cough) haiti

The Clinton-Bush Fund has closed up shop in Haiti: Here are the fruits of neoliberal "charity"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2415607

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
6. I remember that lovely thread
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 02:02 AM
Jun 2013

I even posted in it only to be accosted by someone obsessed with Sean Penn. I just reread it with sadness. Clinton's not as slick as he thinks. And his flimsy whoopsie excuse for destroying Haiti's rice industry will never ever be accepted.

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
7. clinton is now saying 'mistakes were made' on rice. "who could have known?"
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 02:04 AM
Jun 2013

Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/1/clinton_rice


he's such an ass.

it's maddening. as if they hadn't done the same thing plenty of times before, with the same results. each time, they pretend they don't understand what they're doing.

they understand perfectly well.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
8. Agreed. Because each time they make a killing on these things they pretend not to understand
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 03:08 AM
Jun 2013

like NAFTA. Glass Steagall. Welfare Reform.

In a few decades, they'll toss out an apology for the GMOs they're forcing on the world. A fat lot of good that will do us.

Of course they understand. It's a big club and you and I ain't in it.

That video was pathetic.

 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
3. keeping the war going...who benefits?
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:48 AM
Jun 2013

Clintons
Obama
Isreal
the brotherhood
Egypt
the Kurds
Iran
Russia
the US's military-industrial-complex

somebody else?

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