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FarCenter

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15. Has Susan Rice expressed any progressive views?

Reply to ProgressiveProfessor (Reply #14)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 03:05 PM

Nov 2012

Or has she devoted her career to climbing up the ranks of the imperialist nomenklatura in the national security apparatus?

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Benjamin Friedman: The real problem with Susan Rice [View all] FarCenter Nov 2012 OP

Finally, someone cuts through the dog whistles and bullshit to policy-grounded reasons. leveymg Nov 2012 #1

That someone is a (conservative) Libertarian from the Cato Institute frazzled Nov 2012 #6

. bigtree Nov 2012 #13

Not entirely true. sadbear Nov 2012 #2

That's from 2008. She was not an expresssed Iraq War opponent in 2003, as far as I could find. leveymg Nov 2012 #3

Also check if she was privy to the same information Clinton and McCain were privy to at the time. sadbear Nov 2012 #4

Both of whom voted for the Authorization for Use of Force in Iraq. leveymg Nov 2012 #7

Here's her statement from 04/11/03 - clearly committed to staying in Iraq "for many years to come" leveymg Nov 2012 #8

Here's her statement of support for war on Feb. 6, 2003: "(Powell) proved that Iraq has (WMD)" leveymg Nov 2012 #11

Another Rice pre-Iraq War quote (12/20/02 NPR) "We move forward, as we must, on the military side." leveymg Nov 2012 #12

She was part of the Obama campaign... that's hardly a surprising quote cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #5

Yeah, Albright was a neocon warmongerer... joeybee12 Nov 2012 #9

that should disqualify her, we don't need another interventionist/war monger as SoS quinnox Nov 2012 #10

So the progressives should oppose her too? ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #14

Has Susan Rice expressed any progressive views? FarCenter Nov 2012 #15

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