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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
23. For Honduras? Not so much.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 06:30 PM
Feb 2014
Hillary Clinton’s Honduran Disgrace

By Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive, March 5, 2010

Hillary Clinton continues with her hawkish ways, making Obama’s foreign policy less distinguishable from Bush’s every day.

She just met with Honduran President Pepe Lobo, she’s notified Congress that the Obama administration is restoring aid to Honduras, and she’s urging Latin American nations to recognize the Lobo government in Tegucigalpa.

The democratic opposition in Honduras boycotted lobo’s election, since he’s allied with the forces that overthrew Manuel Zelaya last June.

But for the longest time, Hillary Clinton stubbornly refused to call the June takeover a “coup,” even though her boss, the president of the United States, immediately denounced it as such.

SNIP..

“Other countries of the region say that they want to wait a while,” she said on her Latin American trip. “I don’t know what they’re waiting for.”

CONTINUED...

http://progressive.org/wx030510.html

For some reason, this is the same foreign policy endorsed by Secret Agents in Washington since 1964: Money Trumps Peace. So, until she's the nominee, I'm going to keep open the possibility of a more democratic Democratic candidate.

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He hates republicans? RobertEarl Feb 2014 #1
Yes that seems like two bowls of popcorn - one for Clinton and one for Petraeus. nt el_bryanto Feb 2014 #2
TPTB have spoken. nt tridim Feb 2014 #3
“In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and riversedge Feb 2014 #4
Hawks of a feather..... Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #5
...create mayhem together! polichick Feb 2014 #12
And, wave flags together. Lotsa flags. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #14
Since Benghazi was CIA-related, I suspect we don't know the full story TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #6
yep. When a rw bush loving war thumping repugnicant endorses Whisp Feb 2014 #7
or maybe she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled OKNancy Feb 2014 #8
Maybe he wants to be in her cabinet. RC Feb 2014 #11
lol n/t Jefferson23 Feb 2014 #9
I think the entire operation in Libya was a Patreus run operation. She fell on her sword and gave okaawhatever Feb 2014 #10
Actually, Susan Rice was the public face of Benghazi blame. TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #18
HUH?????? Clinton wasn't harmed by her association with the events in Libya? AYFKM? Yes, Susan Rice okaawhatever Feb 2014 #19
I believe Petraeus did appear at some point before Congress, if memory TwilightGardener Feb 2014 #21
Patreus testified behind closed doors for both the House and Senate Intelligence Committee. It okaawhatever Feb 2014 #24
You are onto something here. greatlaurel Feb 2014 #20
I have seen it written somewhere that Patreus was asked to be the candidate for President by the okaawhatever Feb 2014 #25
he said the same… stillcool Feb 2014 #13
I have said before that I won't caucus for her and Skidmore Feb 2014 #15
I think she is qualified to be president. hrmjustin Feb 2014 #16
he'll turn if she's the nominee independentpiney Feb 2014 #17
What is her position on Afghanistan? solarhydrocan Feb 2014 #22
For Honduras? Not so much. Octafish Feb 2014 #23
So did Alice Walton Warpy Feb 2014 #26
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