Hillary the Hun Gung-Ho for War with Iran

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Hillary the Hun Gung-Ho for War with Iran

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[Slick Willy Clinton was nuthin compared with his greedy, power-grasping
lunatic wife Hillary. This woman is poison. The whole Demopublican One
Party with Two Names is poison. If there are any decent ethical
candidates out there who are running for President in 2008, they
should:

a) get a psychiatric evaluation to determine if they are sane and find
out WHY they'd possibly want the job mopping up the Half-Wits Blood &
Guts (of others) and trying to run this dying empire and

b) if sincere,they should LEAVE the Demopublican/Republicrat Party]
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Consortium News - Sep 28, 2007
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092707.html

Hillary Prods Bush to Go After Iran

By Robert Parry

So let me see if Ive got this right: Hillary Clinton, the Democratic
frontrunner for the presidential nomination, is demanding that George
W. Bush take a more belligerent posture toward Iran.

In her view " and that of 75 other members of the U.S. Senate "
President Bush hasnt been aggressive or hasty enough in designating a
large part of the Iranian military, the Revolutionary Guards, as an
international terrorist organization.

The Senate resolution, approved on Sept. 26, recounts allegations that
elements of Irans Revolutionary Guards have supplied Iraqi Shiite
militias with explosively formed penetrator bombs that have shattered
U.S. armored vehicles and killed American troops.

In response, the Senate resolution calls on President Bush to list the
Revolutionary Guards as specially designated global terrorists. In
opposing the resolution, Sen. James Webb, D-Virginia, warned that the
move could be tantamount to a declaration of war.

Despite Webbs protest, 29 Democrats joined Republicans and
neoconservative Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to pass
the sense of the Senate resolution. The Democrats egging Bush on
included Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Californias
Dianne Feinstein and Michigans Carl Levin.

Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana were the
only Republicans voting no. Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden
of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut also opposed the measure.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was absent but said he would have voted
against it.

But Hillary Clinton, who also voted to grant Bush the authority to go
to war with Iraq in 2002 and staunchly supported the war for the next
three years before reinventing herself as an Iraq War critic, now has
reverted to her old hawkish self, jumping out ahead of Bush in urging a
more hostile policy toward Iran.

Besides the extraordinary notion that Bush needs prodding into greater
belligerence, there is the dangerous definitional problem of throwing
the broad cloak of terrorism over Iraqis, who are resisting a U.S.
military invasion force, and their alleged Iranian allies.

The classic definition of terrorism is violence directed against
civilians to make a political point. The term shouldn't be applied to
an indigenous population fighting an irregular war against a foreign
occupying army, since that would have made everyone from George
Washington to the French Resistance to the Afghanis confronting the
Soviet occupation "terrorists."

Though Americans understandably detest anyone killing U.S. soldiers "
whatever the circumstances " it is not "terrorism." In effect, the
Senate resolution is chosing to use terrorist as a geopolitical curse
word against any combatant who challenges U.S. military might.

While that "tough-guy/gal" stance might make political sense
domestically " condemning anyone who dares take up arms against U.S.
soldiers " the risk is that once the word terrorist is attached, it
effectively dictates a course of action: negotiations with "terrorists"
are prohibited and a host of draconian actions become unavoidable, even
if they are counterproductive.

With a peaceful solution off the table, violence is almost guaranteed
to escalate; more U.S. soldiers are likely to die; and American
interests may be damaged. One might have thought that the lesson of
loosely applying the epithet terrorist to an adversary would have
been learned from the debacle that followed Bush falsely linking Saddam
Hussein to al-Qaeda.

That is a lesson now measured by the blood of some 3,800 dead American
soldiers and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. But it is a lesson
that Hillary Clinton and those other senators " with their fingers to
the political winds " apparently still havent learned.


[Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the
Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The
Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his
sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com. ]

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