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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Supporters, You Have GOT To Check Out This Thread [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)She has demonstrated that she is a war hawk over and over again. She pushed Obama into the disastrous Afghanistan surge (back when Biden argued for narrowing the focus there to strictly al qaeda).
Her rhetoric has been consistently pro-war, what do we pay soldiers for.
...rather than challenge President George W. Bushs dramatic increases in military spending, Senator Clinton argues that they are not enough and the United States needs to spend even more in subsequent years. At the end of the Cold War, many Democrats were claiming that the American public would be able to benefit from a peace dividend resulting from dramatically-reduced military spending following the demise of the Soviet Union. Clinton, however, has called for dramatic increases in the military budget, even though the United States, despite being surrounded by two oceans and weak friendly neighbors, already spends as much on its military as all the rest of the world combined.
She has even fought the Bush administration in restoring funding for some of the very few weapons systems the Bush administration has sought to cut in recent years.
she was one of the chief advocates in her husbands inner circle for the 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 to attempt to resolve the Kosovo crisis.
Gail Sheehys book Hillarys Choice reveals how, when President Bill Clinton and others correctly expressed concerns that bombing Serbia would likely lead to a dramatic worsening of the human rights situation by provoking the Serbs into engaging in full-scale ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Hillary Clinton successfully pushed her husband to bomb that country anyway.
She has also defended the 1998 U.S. bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan which had provided that impoverished African country with more than half of its antibiotics and vaccines, falsely claiming it was a chemical weapons factory controlled by Osama bin Laden.
Clinton voted to authorize the president with wide-ranging authority to attack Afghanistan and was a strong supporter of the bombing campaign against that country, which resulted in more civilian deaths than the 9/11 attacks against the United States that had prompted them.
More -- a bucketload more -- at the link.
http://fpif.org/hillary_clinton_on_military_policy/