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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary was offered a private briefing on Iraq Before her Vote - By an expert and passed [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)27. I guess because she's vice-chair of the DNC this is extra significant.
She sounds like a woman for whom lives matter, and not just fat profits from selling cluster munitions, and backing wars that use them.
Nice to know that some people in the USA actually care.
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Hillary was offered a private briefing on Iraq Before her Vote - By an expert and passed [View all]
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
OP
Neoliberal economics combined with a belligerent, hawkish neocon foreign policy.
hifiguy
Feb 2016
#14
Good grief. How callow. Why would anyone skip a briefing with the folks who had actual knowledge?
peacebird
Feb 2016
#5
Knowingly sending troops into harms way after refusing to attend briefing...? Disgusting.
peacebird
Feb 2016
#20
She didn't skip a briefing. He showed up at her office. She wasn't available. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2016
#28
And never made herself available to THE FOREMOST UN Weapons Inspector on the ground in Iraq
KeepItReal
Mar 2016
#46
At the time, he wasn't working anymore for the UN...nor did the UN send him. nt
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#53
I stopped fact checking the author when I read his history of "soliciting minors for sex".
procon
Feb 2016
#9
And to think these people were saying to not shoot the messenger a few days prior...
VulgarPoet
Feb 2016
#26
Actually, the four incidents we know of.....one predates Iraq. He's been at this a while. nt
msanthrope
Mar 2016
#54
Sorry...But I don't believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a convicted and confessed child
msanthrope
Feb 2016
#24
Consenting adults aren't my business. But Ritter's had four run ins with the law involving minors.
msanthrope
Feb 2016
#32
Well, rivers of blood tend to stain, so no, I don't like them. I also don't like hyperbole....Ritte
msanthrope
Feb 2016
#37