The Six Trillion Dollar Mistake.

Submitted by subir on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:36pm

When someone asks me why I’m for Bernie rather than Hillary, I say it has to do with the Six Trillion Dollar Mistake.

It’s difficult to understand a figure as large as $6,000,000,000,000.

6 Trillion would buy us one of these four nice things:

50 years of tuition-free public college and 50 years of free universal pre-K.
7 years of free health-care for 100 million Americans.
$20,000 as a gift to every man, woman and child in America.
Bullet trains connecting every major city, 85 Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carriers, 10 Space Stations, 10 manned missions to Mars, ten million homes for the homeless plus the Starship Enterprise.

But instead of getting these nice things, we got one shitty thing. The war in Iraq. Which was followed by other shitty things like ISIS.

The war was dreamt up and executed by Bush/Cheney. It is their fault. But others acted as enablers:

48 Republicans and 29 Democrats in the senate enabled the war.
215 Republicans and 85 Democrats in the House enabled the war.

And some tried to stop them:

21 Democrats, 1 Republican and 1 Independent in the Senate tried to stop them.
126 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 1 Independent in the House tried to stop them.

The independent in the House was Bernie Sanders.

One little known Illinois state senator knew it was a mistake and tried to stop it.

Among the 29 Democratic Senators who enabled Bush/Cheney was Hillary Clinton.

What a colossal mistake.

A 6 Trillion Dollar Mistake.
A 500,000 Iraqis dead mistake.
A 4,425 dead American soldiers mistake.

Hillary defended that decision for 13 years. Only admitting it was a mistake in 2015. Biden said he made a mistake in 2005, ten years sooner.

All that experience and it took 13 years to admit it was a mistake. How can you learn from your mistakes if you won’t admit them for three terms and you only get two?

I’ll take the politician who doesn’t enable such mistakes over the one who does.

That’s what’s at stake in this primary, and why you should be working you butt off to make Bernie the Democratic nominee and the next president of the United States

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Submitted by ppnortney on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:40pm

Thank you

for reposting it here. I went to TOP to read your original but there are many here that can't or won't go there, so I'm delighted you decided to bring it here.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:48pm

This is the number one reason

why I refuse to vote for Hillary under any circumstances, even in the general. I participate in a weekly Peace vigil and I cannot in good conscience vote for a war monger.

I was disappointed when I did not see this post here before it was posted at the other place, but I am so glad that you did post here too. This is a very important essay.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:49pm

And I loved watching Hillary's supporters defend her.
They keep saying that she has admitted that it was a mistake to vote for the AUMF. And that her vote wasn't for war, but for more inspections. But as I have mentioned before, PNAC went to Bill during his presidency and wanted him to remove saddam and Hillary would have known that.
And then there's her actions when she was SOS. She hasn't learned a damned thing. She has been for every military intervention going back to the 80's. I have posted a link to the article, but not sure if anyone is reading it.

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Submitted by 2andfro on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:54pm

She hasn't "learned" because her actions weren't

mistakes according to her worldview. She's a hawk. She's a supporter of arms dealers. She's a 1970s-80s Republican. Naomi Klein has it right: http://www.thenation.com/article/the-problem-with-hillary-clinton-isnt-j...

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 9:49pm

Thanks for the link

Great article. Love Klein.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by 2andfro on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:49pm

thanks for posting this here

I actually went back to TOS to read and rec this diary on suggestion of someone (at the reddit subthread perhaps?) and found it worth the ick factor to subject myself to the primordial stew over there. But many will no longer give Boss Markos the clicks, so I'm glad you've published this here as well.

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

Submitted by B. Joe King on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 8:35pm