NY Senate candidate claims Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes

[Karmadillo]

I'm about to lose computer access for several days, but I'll say in advance I think Van Auken makes good points. Clinton should not unequivocally embrace the outrageous violence being inflicted upon the people of Lebanon.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/clin-j19.shtml

Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes
By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US Senate from New York
19 July 2006

The speech given by New York’s Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton to a rally staged by Zionist organizations Monday across from the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan amounted to a celebration of massacres and war crimes.

Her remarks left no doubt that a vote for Clinton in November is a vote not only to continue the US war in Iraq, but to expand and intensify the slaughter throughout the region.

Under conditions in which Israeli war planes, gunships and artillery are turning Lebanese bridges, highways, power plants and residential buildings into rubble while killing hundreds of civilians, Clinton made it clear that she not only supports the ongoing aggression that has been unleashed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, but is quite prepared to back its escalation into a full scale war against Syria and Iran as well.

“We will support efforts to send a message to Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Syrians, to the Iranians, to all who seek death and domination instead of life and freedom,” she told the crowd.

“Send a message” is such an innocuous phrase to describe mass murder and state terrorism. How is this message being sent? In southern Lebanon, Israeli planes dropped leaflets warning villagers that they should flee north for their lives. When they complied, a warplane attacked a column of refugees incinerating 18 people, most of them children. Then other planes demolished the main roads as well as all of the bridges over the Litani River, forcing many of the refugees to abandon their vehicles and continue their exodus on foot.

Homes, schools and even hospitals and ambulances have been targeted by Israeli bombs and missiles. On Sunday morning, an Israeli air strike took out an entire wing of the Jabel Amel hospital in Tyre, killing a family of nine, who had come there seeking aid after suffering a previous bombing of their apartment building.

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[EFerrari]

1. Someone needs to fired Clinton's consultants if she doesn't

have the sense to do it.

I really hope you guys don't nominate this person for 08. I've never voted anything but Democratic in a national election. And I can't vote for this.

[skipos]

2. Try to convince as many people as possible that they

shouldn't vote for her in the primary. That is what I am doing, and it isn't very hard. Unfortunately, most voters are not very informed. Maybe we should try to convince other Dems that they wouldn't want to have a beer with her, and therefore shouldn't vote for her in the primary? That might be more effective.

[Clark2008]

3. I would try to convince someone not to vote for her in a primary

if I could FIND someone who was planning to.

I don't see how she constantly gets the highest poll numbers because I've never met a soul who plans to vote for her in the primary. Most people I know have sense enough to realize that she hasn't a chance in hell to win my state - or any other purplish-red state - in order to win the national election.

(Clarification: I've never met a soul in REAL LIFE who plans to vote for her. There are several on this board).

[skipos]

4. My experience is the same as yours

but keep in mind that you and I probably don't know a lot of your average voters. You know, the one who votes for the candidate he'd like to have a beer with? A family member of mine told me in 2004 that she wanted Lieberman to get the nomination. I like to give her shit about it now, because she can't even remember why she supported him. Election fraud or not, millions upon millions of people voted for Bush. That is all the proof I need that your average voter is kinda dumb. :crazy:

[leftchick]

9. I hope she can be defeated in the senate race

but she has more money than Gates apparently. :eyes:

[papau]

5. Terrorist seeking "death and domination instead of life and freedom" are

a socialist cause?

interesting.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. Van Auken is an idiot.

And his gibberish should not be taken seriously.

[malaise]

6. Hillary Clinton is part of the problem n/t

[KoKo]

8. Hillary like Joe Lieberman

gets huge funding and support from Jews who support Israel's actions no matter what Israel does. Not all Jews support anything Israel does...but the ones who support Lieberman and Hillary give the money for the support on an issue they care the most about and expect them to speak out vigorously when there's an issue involving Israel's security.

Sigh....in politics it's always about the money one has to support a campaign and the issues of those who give it. Which is why we need to curb some of the K-Street Lobbyists activities.

It's Hillary's own business to pander to her fund raisers and perhaps she does in her heart support the Invasion and War in Iraq and Israel First no matter what it does...but it makes it hard for some of the rest of us to support her for a Presidential run. :-( If voters in NY want her then that's their business...but nationally..some of us have a problem with her because of her views.