Donald Trump Praises Dictators, Clinton Befriends Them
According to Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy adviser, Trump "praise for brutal strongmen knows no bounds." Yet Hillary may not praise them publicly, she does call them her friends.
Clinton has described former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and his wife as “friends of my family.” Mubarak ruled Egypt under a perpetual “state of emergency” rule that involved disappearing and torturing dissidents, police killings, and persecution of LGBT people.
When the Arab Spring protests threatened his rule, Clinton begged the administration: don't "push a longtime partner out the door".
Egypt is far from the only military dictatorship that Clinton has supported. During her tenure as secretary of state, Clinton approved tens of billions of dollars of weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia – including fighter jets now being used to bomb Yemen. Clinton played a central role in legitimizing a 2009 military coup in Honduras, and once called Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad a “reformer.” And in return for approving arms deals to gulf state monarchies, Clinton accepted tens of millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Henry Kissinger raised her in his own mold.
Read more at the Intercept.
On a side-note, as I read some of the links to the Clinton Foundation in this article and how the Clintons have enriched themselves enormously through political manipulations...it occurred to me: Donald Trump noticed the scam these two were pulling and he wants in. It's that simple, Trump wants to feed at the trough and the Clintons are hogging it.
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Egypt: While Clinton was SoS, a democratically elected
government was installed which proved not to be of the liking of the Obama administration and Israel. The government was overthrown and the current military dictatorship took power. Clinton may claim to have been against Obama's move but her protests were either non-existent or feeble.
Why is Cyrus Vance the last cabinet official to resign in protest?
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
No on will resign because they are with the program.
War is our product. We no longer make stuff for the world to drive, or eat, or wear. We make stuff that blows people and things to smithereens. You can kill up close and personal or from the other side of the world with a laptop and some nachos. We make war and that's all we have left. If the world aint buying it, too bad, cause we are using it on something because in the end, what good are bombs and missiles sitting around in a bunker? They are only useful if used and replenished and used and replenished...
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
And Hollywood Movies
about war, past, present and future.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
FDR: I don't want to see a single war millionaire created as
a result of this world disaster.
Truman was a hero to singlemindedly focus on preventing war profiteering and calling some forms of war profiteering "treason." HST was the leading force in the US Senate in this area.
Yet with the war in Iraq, the looting of the treasury started in DC before the first of the Bush/Cheney troops arrived there.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Some people believe that the Clintons are paying
Trump to run for President. After all, what is the worst thing that can happen to him? He loses and earns the Clintons' gratitude for being such an awful candidate, or he actually wins and becomes President of the US. heh. ....is that tin foil I see?
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon