Senator clinton had an opportunity to vote no on giving President Bush sweeping authority to declare war on Iraq. She chose not to. her arm wasn't twisted, and you and I both know she's no idiot - she knew what she was voting for, who was asking for it, and what the result would be. Senator Clinton has a hand in the death and brutalization of Iraqi women. Of course, the Bush administration has a bigger hand, and the others who voted for it are no cleaner - but clinton still has that blood on her hands.
Through that same vote, and her tenure as head of hte State Department, she also has a hand in the issue of Syria. Not only did the chaos of Iraq metastasize into Syria, but the State Department took an active hand in Syria, arming and training "Rebvel Groups", intentionally aggravating and extending a civil war, to further the department's aims of toppling Assad. Clinton thus has some responsibility for the death and brutalization visited upon Syrian women.
The clinton State department also strove to smother the arab Spring movements in Egypt and Bahrain, selling arms and "crowd control" to the king of Bahrain and giving unending support to the dictator of Egypt, Mubarak. In both states, rape by police was a common tactic against female protesters and activists, in addition to the more casual brutalities one might expect of everyday life under such dictatorships.
In Libya, much as with Syria, the State Department under Clinton strove to destroy the nation's leader - no saint himself, but at least Libya wasn't... well, look at it now. That's Clinton's work, that's her legacy. she even had a good laugh about it, remember, we came, we saw, he died, hah hah hah. How do you think Libyan women are faring? That so many seem ot be first in line to try to row cardboard boxes across the Mediterranean ought to tell you.
THis is your candidate, from beginning to end. This is what she's all about. You look at this record, and.. .what? "Women matter"> Really? They didn't matter when Clinton was giving the bahraini security forces batons used to subdue and sodomize women in the streets of Manama. They didn't matter when Clinton signed on to kill hundreds of thousands of women from Basra to Mosul so she could "look tough on defense." Women didn't matter when Sec. Clinton was shipping arms and money and training to "rebels" who would go on to enslave Yazidi women and decapitate any who resisted the whims of their "husbands."
This is without even looking at Clinton's defense of the use of cluster bombs - the majority of the victims of these things are women and children. and it doesn't look at her State Department's ties with brutal anti-woman regimes the world over without major conflicts going on - Prominently Saudi Arabia.
If my pointing this stuff out offends you more than the brutalization of women I describe offends you? Then tough shit.
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