Hillary Clinton’s Neocon Legacy: Coups, Dictators, Corruption, Chaos, Executions and Assassination

[Cheese Sandwich]

Honduras

In 2009 Hillary showed what she really means by “smart power” and backed the military coup in Honduras over the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was getting too close to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and neocons such as Hillary feared another left-wing government in Latin America.

Coup leaders seized President Zelaya in the middle of the night and flew him to exile in Costa Rico. But first they stopped at a U.S. military base in Honduras, SOUTHCOM Joint Task Force-Bravo. Hillary said it was a “surprise visit”.
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Libya

Hillary’s liberal mask fell off in her glee over the carnage in Libya. We get to see the hideous face of a neocon that celebrates the brutal anal rape with a bayonet and the murder of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Hillary delights in taking the responsibility. (Watch here.)
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Egypt

During the Arab Spring in Egypt, Hillary showed her preference for dictators and military coups, what she calls “smart power”. After the U.S. had backed Dictator Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for 30 years the Obama administration decided to cut him loose. It was 30 years overdue.

Hillary says she opposed abandoning Mubarak, because he was a long-time friend of the U.S. She did not care what the people of Egypt wanted.
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Hillary Neoconservative

No one needs to guess at what a President Hillary Clinton administration would be like. She would continue her disastrous neoconservative ways. She would continue the unending wars, especially if she were to appoint a Cabinet full of neocons such as Michele Flournoy.

Hillary supporter Flournoy is a co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). It is the successor neocon think-tank for a Project for a New American Century (PNAC). CNAS is funded by the military industrial complex; the same ones funding Hillary’s campaign.
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Read More: http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/170-more-blog-posts-from-david-william-pear/2458-hillary-clintons-neocon-legacy-coups-dictators-corruption-chaos-executions-and-assassination

[RandySF]

1. That sure is a lot for someone who supposedly accomplished nothing as Sec. of State.

[FlatBaroque]

9. Generally, when we speak of accomplishments, we are referring to

positive and helpful acts. Hillary is the bringer of death and destruction, something which makes her gleeful. It would be inartful to call death and destruction "accomplishments".

[leveymg]

61. That was nicely understated. eom

[HFRN]

2. She's a great uniter, you can give her that

neoliberals and neocons

[Cheese Sandwich]

40. Those are pretty close to being the same thing I guess.

.

[HooptieWagon]

63. Yes, basically the same.

Neo-Con is the foreign policy, Neo-Lib is the economic policy.

[Cheese Sandwich]

65. oooohooooh.

oh ok that makes sense.

[HooptieWagon]

66. Neo-Liberal economists seek to "liberate" the economy from regulation.

to enable the ultra-wealthy to become insanely wealthy. Privatize govt functions so they can get ahold of that money, and austerity for the masses until they're bled dry.
Neoconservative is a foreign policy to enact neoliberal economic policy. Either use IMF disaster capitalism to force a country to surrender its economy, or use coups or invasions to set up a puppet govt to allow the Neo-Liberal economy to be put in place. Prime examples are the 1973 coup in Chile, or the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Neither country posed a military or security risk, but the neo-libs wanted to create Neo-Liberal "Utopias".

[Scuba]

3. K&R

[onehandle]

4. This is alarming. We should all get our news from a site called 'The Real News.'

When Hillary is President, she should dismantle all 'news organizations' except 'therealnews.com'

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. This is more of an opinion/analysis piece

It is a blog post.

[onehandle]

17. Opinion coming from 'The Real News?'

But it's called 'The Real News.'

If it's not news, maybe they should call themselves 'The Real Bullshit.'

[Cheese Sandwich]

18. You never heard of theRealNews.com? It's actually a very good site...

You should check it out sometime.

[George II]

32. That's the second place that I go to for "news"...

....right after the National Inquirer!

[bluedigger]

56. Why the rofl's?

That was totally believable.

[okasha]

35. And then there's Newsmax

and rightwingnews. All great sources for the Really True Truth!

[Cheese Sandwich]

37. Real News Network is very educational!

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check this out. This is Bill Fletcher's show on Real News.

I found it educational

[Le Taz Hot]

5. K & R

[Cheese Sandwich]

19. thank you!

[SidDithers]

6. ...

Sid

[Cheese Sandwich]

16. Gift of Freedom?

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edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tables

[peacebird]

27. Far too many were killed in the process of getting 'the gift of freedom', "collateral damage"

[Cheese Sandwich]

28. yes thanks peacebird

[obnoxiousdrunk]

26. Cheese Roll...

[Cheese Sandwich]

30. thank you!

[snagglepuss]

7. K & R

[Cheese Sandwich]

38. thanks!

[brooklynite]

8. I wasn't aware that Hillary Clinton was President...

I was under the impression that she was carrying out the foreign policy of President Obama.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. So . . .

she was "just following orders." That defense was destroyed during the Nuremburg Trials.

[brooklynite]

14. Let's see how Bernie felt...

SANDERS: I have reservations about our involvement in Libya. I mean, we are in a huge deficit. We are in two wars. And I would become somewhat conservative on that issue.

"Reservations..." A stinging indictment if I ever heard one.

[Le Taz Hot]

15. And the redirect . . .

[okasha]

34. He had reservations about the expense,

not humanitarian concerns. Interesting.

It fits with his emphasis on economic, as opposed to social, justice.

[Luminous Animal]

36. Really. His objection to the expense was that it would take away from funding the safety net.

well, here’s my concern. we have lost thousands of lives in afghanistan and iraq. and at the end of the day, those are going to cost us trillions of dollars. i think fighting two wars simultaneously may well be enough. i’m not sure i want to see this country drawn into a third war, which will cost us substantial sums of money. i hope the president will tell us today that if our friends in europe, if the uk, france and italy feel very strongly about this issue, i hope they will do what they want to do. but i am not enthusiastic about the united states getting drawn into a third war when we have a $14 trillion national debt and when we have lost so many lives already in afghanistan and iraq.

>> at the same time, don’t we have to be honest about the nature of our energy dependency, particularly oil as an overland transportation fuel? and the hypocrite call relationship of foreign policy relationship with any number of countries as we’ve tried to maintain a balance of power?

>> my own view is we have to move as quickly as possible away from foreign oil where we’re spending about $350 billion a year, move to energy independence, move to energy efficiency and to sustainable energy. but we cannot continue to keep going to war in the middle east every time there is a crisis there. look, the truth of the matter is, i am focusing right now on a budget situation where our republican friends want to devastate programs like head start, the social security administration, college grants, the middle class and working class families, the environmental protection agency. their arguing is there’s not enough money to funding those programs. meanwhile, we’re spending more on a third war in libya. my hope is the president will tell us today that our involvement there is going to end very, very shortly.

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/03/28/defining-the-mission-in-libya/

[George II]

44. "Conservative"? Stinging indictment indeed.

[FlatBaroque]

13. You are under the wrong impression

[delrem]

43. Your main and explicit argument is that Hillary wasn't a free agent,

that she was just mindless software programmed by Obama. So your main and explicit argument is the ultimate excuse - it's that Hillary should take no blame, or credit, for anything in her historical legacy. But your secondary and implicit argument is that all that death and destruction doesn't matter to you, not even the teeniest bit. You were good with it then, and you will be good with even more of the same in the future.

All I can say is that my politics is different than yours, and although I know I could never persuade you to change your political views in any way shape or form, I'll continue to oppose your politics of warmongering death and destruction with every breath I take.

[Cheese Sandwich]

25. ya know...

I'm not a singe issue voter, but if I was, that would probably be the issue.

[George II]

45. If you're so upset with Hillary Clinton, why is every post of yours plastered with pictures of her?

[Cheese Sandwich]

48. I was just trying out a new signature line

[GeorgeGist]

20. The author also loves him some Benghazi ...

“Benghazi-gate”: A Window into the Secret War in Libya by the CIA.

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/170-more-blog-posts-from-david-william-pear/1325-benghazi-gate-a-window-into-the-secret-war-in-libya-by-the-cia

[Cheese Sandwich]

22. Did you actually read that?

[Cheese Sandwich]

24. He seems like a good guy. Lot's of thoughtful articles...

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/category/170-more-blog-posts-from-david-william-pear


1 Hillary Clinton’s Neocon Legacy: Coups, Dictators, Corruption, Chaos, Executions and Assassination
2 Solar Power: Fiddling While the Earth Burns
3 NEOLIBERALISM: Austerity vs. The Affluent Society
4 Cuba Si, Yankee Imperialism No! End the Blockade of Cuba.
5 Afghanistan: “The Ghost of Vietnam”
6 Africa: Nigeria and “Our Girls”
7 Africa: Slavery, King Cotton and the Industrial Revolution.
8 Africa: Incredible Wealth, Exploitation, Corruption and Poverty for its People.
9 Africa: South Sudan, Oil and War
10 First Strike Capability: Would the US be the first to use the bomb again?
11 Domestic Spying and Continuity of Government.
12 “Why aren’t the 50% living in poverty protesting in the streets?”
13 Will the Real President Obama Please Step Forward?
14 Standing Your Ground While Black in Florida…and in 24 Other States
15 “Benghazi-gate”: A Window into the Secret War in Libya by the CIA.
16 “Won’t Back Down”: A movie that is out to undermine public education is playing now at a theater near you.
17 “Torture and Apartheid: The Criminalization of Homelessness and The War against Beggars, Tramps and Panhandlers in American Cities”
18 “President Morsi’s Balancing Act”
19 The Quadrillion Dollar Question?

[askew]

21. Honduras is the most damning.

With Honduras, she was actively working against Obama's wishes on Honduras.

And the leader that she helped put into place in Honduras made the country so terrifying that droves of children were fleeing to our borders. Then, Hillary callously said to send them all back. That alone should be disqualifying for the presidency. Those poor children were being sent back to a nightmare that she helped to create.

[Cheese Sandwich]

23. Honduras was a tricky one

In some early statements I think she was calling it an illegitimate coup. It seems like that was more just for cover story though.

But she moved to recognize the new government first, when all the other countries were still calling for the return of the elected government.

I think I'm remembering that right. Someone else can probably say it better.

[bvar22]

71. Oh, but didn't you hear?

Hillary is a strong advocate for women and children.
She says so herself!

[pa28]

29. K&R

[Cheese Sandwich]

33. thanks!

[Comrade Grumpy]

31. Her tenure as Secretary of State was one disaster after another.

If Hilary had her way, we'd be thee years into a war in Syria right now.

[Cheese Sandwich]

39. Seems pretty horrid. I'm still learning more about it.

[George II]

46. Ah, the master of the one-liner. Can you say anything other than that or...

.....copying/pasting articles from dubious sites?

[Cheese Sandwich]

47. Yes!

The article is really a blog post. It's a blog post. A bloggers opinion. And not only is the site non-dubious, the site is actually fucking awesome, one of the best news analysis sites on the internet.

[FlatBaroque]

68. Her performance as SOS disqualifies her from consideration for higher officce.

[George II]

41. This looks like a Fox News hit piece.

[Cheese Sandwich]

42. No way bro. More of an emo-prog chomskyite.

[MisterP]

49. thing is, a back-Facussé and kill-Qaddafi candidate can't really play at being anyone's champion

[Cheese Sandwich]

50. except maybe the MIC and the 1%

[sabrina 1]

51. There's a reason why they don't want us to talk about issues, why they keep

beating a dead horse that is going nowhere, but is intended to DISTRACT. Thank you for keeping it ON THE ISSUES.

Hillary supports WAR. WAR is bad for women and bad for minorities, particularly the dark skinned people in the countries we invade. Empires do that, for their resources.

[MisterP]

55. "Sanders has thistledown hair!

who knows what baby-swapping, cradle-robbing fey blood he might have!"

[sabrina 1]

59. When we stick to the issues, and to the political records of the candidates, Bernie wins,

hands down. I wish people would realize this, not take the bait, and go look at all of their records on the major issues of the past several decades.

No wonder they are working so hard to try to distract people. Their candidate doesn't look so good when you STICK TO THE ISSUES! Lol!

[MisterP]

62. syrup-sucking Yid witch!

but, yes, in fact every time they try a smear or slam or just an insinuation every Sandersonian (?) puts up 2-20 videos directly contradicting it, fresh from C-SPAN, a year or 20 years old

so, why are the official faction pushing so hard for issues that they know they'll lose, to be defeated in detail?

[azmom]

52. K&R

[Cheese Sandwich]

69. thanks!

[warrant46]

53. Meanwhile 19 killed today in Baghdad

[HooptieWagon]

54. Kissinger is her mentor and friend.

Obviously she's using Chile as a model.

[GoneFishin]

58. Anybody who cares about basic human decency should be scared off by that alone.

[Cheese Sandwich]

67. Kissenger should be politically toxic.

[tularetom]

57. K&R

[sabrina 1]

60. You cannot support war and support women. Global stats prove that. It really is that

simple.

Another reason why I support Bernie, he opposed all of our Imperial Wars for profit.

[Cheese Sandwich]

64. War sucks. Especially needless wars for profit and empire. That's my thinking on the subject.

[raouldukelives]

70. The legacy of every Wall St supporter. nt