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(1,473 posts)32. I'm tired of this lie being posted over and over again.
Clinton scores Gaza cease fire success
By Byron Tau
11/21/12 01:31 PM EST
Updated 11/21/12 04:55 PM EST
The first bus bombing in years struck Tel Aviv just as she arrived for a round of shuttle negotiations that helped produce the deal Wednesday. Clinton, along with White House press secretary Jay Carney, condemned the attack withering the optimism for stopping the Hamas rocket attacks and the threat of an Israeli ground operation.
Her trip came after days of Obamas calls with Netanyahu and the Egyptian government which was negotiating on behalf of Hamas that had not produced a speedy result. Theres still a long distance between the cease-fire and any kind of lasting peace, but Clinton scored a major victory in a difficult region one where, despite the list of local Obama priorities, the administration hasnt seen much progress.
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/clinton-announces-gaza-cease-fire-084145
It is Bernie Sanders who is the war hawk as proven by his record.
He supported NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
He voted for funding the one in Afghanistan. He voted for military action in Libya.
He voted in favor of a $1 billion aid package for the coup government Ukraine
He supported Israel's assault on Gaza.
He also voted in favor of S J Res 45 - Authorization for Use of US Armed Forces in Somalia, which authorized President Bill Clinton to use US troops in Somalia.
1997, Bernie voted for HR 2159 - Foreign Operations FY98 Appropriations bill, which included:
$3 billion for Israel, including
$1.8 billion in military assistance and $1.2 billion in economic assistance
$2.12 billion for Egypt, including $1.3 billion in military assistance and $815 million in economic assistance
$770 million for former Soviet Republics
$215 million for international narcotics control and law enforcement.
Bernie voted for HR 4655, the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998, which expressed the sense of Congress that it should be the aim of the United States to remove Saddam Hussein from power. President George W. Bush later used the Iraqi Liberation Act to provide justification for military action for the 2003 invasion.
In 1999, Bernie voted for HR 2465, which provided $4 billion for military construction,
and he voted for HR 3196, which provided: $2.16 billion for military and economic assistance to Israel
$760 million for military and economic assistance to Egypt
$535 million for Eastern European and the Baltic States, including $150 million for assistance to Kosovo
$300 million for military and economic assistance to Jordan
$285 million for international narcotics control.
He also voted in favor of HR 2800 - Foreign Operations Appropriations, FY 2004 bill, which granted $1.8 billion in military and economic assistance to Egypt and $2.2 billion for Israeli military assistance.
He called closing the torturous gulag at Guantanamo a "complicated issue" and ultimately rejected a proposal to shut it down.
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Trump is a buffoon, but he wants nukes as a negotiating tactic (?!) & I quote the buffoon,
RiverLover
May 2016
#46
Yeah right. That kid did no such thing, he wasn't drafted and odds are he joined for the gung-ho
Hoyt
May 2016
#14
I'm fine with police carrying weapons. When off duty, or as cvilian, it's different.
Hoyt
May 2016
#70
Well that's better than the usual, "I'll rip your head of and crap down your neck" ypu
Hoyt
May 2016
#79
I'll take owing banks to being told what to do, who to kill, who to hate, kissing some
Hoyt
May 2016
#119
I can accept that, not that it matters. But that kid shouldn't be flashing BS like that. My bet
Hoyt
May 2016
#18
If they want to avoid war, training to kill, and killing people, don't enlist. Simple.
Hoyt
May 2016
#72
He's got a gun on his hip, that makes it tolerable. I doubt he'll reenlist to do that the rest of
Hoyt
May 2016
#88
"had a judge order one of his kids who couldn't resist drugs to join the Army"
CompanyFirstSergeant
May 2016
#99
Standards aren't very high when you need recruits. Heck, the saying during Vietnam was, "if they
Hoyt
May 2016
#104
most of the guys in my son's platoon are voting for Bernie, not one admits wanting Hillary as CIC
Viva_La_Revolution
May 2016
#19
"Roger that" reminds me of someone; but I cannot remember who used to say it
Jeffersons Ghost
May 2016
#24
PLEASE!!! Vote for Republicans that consistently vote for wars and cuts to veteran benefits.
tenderfoot
May 2016
#27
WWII, and we took that too far nuking innocent Japanese. Every war since was just killing Asians or
Hoyt
May 2016
#108
"KIllery" Clinton! If the coward is afraid to fight he should get out of the military
Jeffersons Ghost
May 2016
#98
Have tons of respect for him, but sorry, anyone who says "Killary" instead
Laura PourMeADrink
May 2016
#134