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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "No, I don't regret giving the president authority" (to start a war) [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)12. She was a robot, you say.
Then why did she hire Dick Cheney's principal deputy foreign policy adviser, Victoria Nuland, to help her in her decisions? Was that also an Obama decision?
Why is Robert Kagan so hyped on Hillary Clinton? Is that because of Obama?
Why is Obama's second term a success, relative to his first? With rapprochements - if only Hillary hadn't been there for the first term, that could have started then. Rather than the hellscape that Hillary unleashed on the ME, in particular. But also in Honduras.
But you lay it all on Obama. Cool.
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DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
OP
As a history buff, you might check how many diplomatic personnel died under Bush.
Hortensis
Sep 2015
#42
President Hillary? More wars, more death, more excuses and apologies. No sale. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Sep 2015
#4
remember how anti-war DU was when Bush was in office? All of a sudden when
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2015
#6
Yes, I do. Being against war is far more important than party association will ever be.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#7
From what I read last year, that was simply a political maneuver to portray Hill as being . .
Major Hogwash
Sep 2015
#35
Hussein was a total scumbag, but he posed no grave and imminent threat to the US
Vattel
Sep 2015
#32
he was a very real problem to iraqis who disagreed with him.. but as you said, not a threat to us
dionysus
Sep 2015
#68
The 21st century began with the USA introducing the world to a new US social program:
delrem
Sep 2015
#39
That was a mistake, she's admitted it. Hillary is not going to go around starting random wars like
DanTex
Sep 2015
#43
You're joking, right? Libya was in the midst of a civil war already when the European led
DanTex
Sep 2015
#45
Maybe in some fantasy world. You weren't even aware that Libya was at war before the bombing
DanTex
Sep 2015
#50
Wow, a bunch of links from websites I never heard of and people that probably think that
DanTex
Sep 2015
#56