2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Seems like we have reached a tipping point [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)and he's never met a drone he didn't like, so long as it was made by Lockheed Martin. He's done deals with Sandia Labs, the guys who make the nation's nuclear weapons. He also voted, over and over again, to fund a war he initially opposed--and anyone who knows anything about a continuing resolution knows that the "He only voted so they'd get paid and resupplied" argument is horse patooty.
So let's not talk about how Sanders is the Peacenik Opposite to Clinton's Hawkishness. Let's not pretend he's free from charges of demonstrating really poor judgment on military issues.
That's just nonsense. What is he? He's a POLITICIAN who likes power and wants to keep it:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19900822&id=YC4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s-UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3262,2613816&hl=en
His own supporters turned on him for his pro-war stance when it came to Iraq and Yugoslavia:
http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363
Bernie Sanders Burlington office to protest his support of the NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia and the ongoing war against Iraq. Calling ourselves
the Instant Antiwar Action Group, we decided to bring our outrage at
Bernies escalating hypocrisy directly to his office, an action that resulted
in 15 of us being arrested for trespass.
Many of us worked on Bernies campaigns through
1980s, the years he wasas the local press repeatedly put it
the avowed socialist Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. His descent
into de facto membership the Democratic party has been a major setback
for the task of building a real electoral alternative to the
two factions of the corporate property that monopolize what passes
for political choice in the United States. Bernies selling out
says clearly to working people and those unable to find work
that even leftists become mainstream politicians, when and if
they win office.
Sanders presented himself to the left outside of Vermont
as the leader of the third party movement.....When he first got elected Mayor of Burlington he was
the only elected U.S. official to attend the anniversary of the Sandinista
Revolution in Managua. The Gannett owned Burlington Free Press
said he had to be removed from office by any means necessary.
Now that same Burlington Free Press endorses his Congressional
candidacy.
Bernie became an imperialist to get elected in 1990.
In August, 1990after the Bush administration enticed Iraq into
invading KuwaitSanders said he wasnt going to let some damn
war cost him the election, according to a staff member who was
present at the time. So Sanders backed the buildup in the Persian Gulf
and dumped on the left anti-imperialist peace movement, singling
out his former allies like Dave Dellinger for public criticism.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/252270-sanders-i-wouldnt-end-drone-program
Sanders: I wouldnt end drone program
The U.S. lethal drone campaign would not come to an end if Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) entered the White House, the presidential contender said on Sunday,
In an interview on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sanders indicated that he would limit the use of drones so that they do not end up killing innocent people abroad, but declined to say that he would end the targeted killing campaign completely.
I think we have to use drones very, very selectively and effectively. That has not always been the case, Sanders said.
What you can argue is that there are times and places where drone attacks have been effective, he added.