Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu
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During her time in the national spotlight, Warren has focused overwhelmingly on domestic issues, rarely venturing into foreign policy discussions. Many of those domestic views, particularly her strident-for-D.C. opposition to banks, have been admirable, elevating her to hero status for many progressives.
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.
Even as conservative Democratic Senate candidates from red states such as Nebraska’s Bob Kerrey were vehemently condemning the threat of war against Iran during their campaigns, Warren was claiming (contrary to the U.S. Government’s own assessment) that “Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons”, adding: “I support strong sanctions against Iran and believe that the United States must also continue to take a leadership role in pushing other countries to implement strong sanctions as well.” Those claims about Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons remained her position even after she was told that they squarely contradict the U.S. intelligence community’s clear assessment of Iran’s actions.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25567-focus-elizabeth-warren-finally-speaks-on-israelgaza-sounds-like-netanyahu
---(not that any of this will stop "progressives" from pushing her as the "progressive" candidate.)
= new reply since forum marked as read
I changed the word "compelled" to "driven" in the post in question (and even apologized for the use of the word "compelled"
because I really was talking about a drive and not a compulsion, but I believe what I believe. I think humans are animals--that we have hormones, and that hormones affect our behavior (not control but affect).
I certainly hope that my noting that a broken clock can be right twice a day doesn't bar me from supporting Elizabeth Warren. I hope it doesn't bar me from being a Democrat. I hope it doesn't bar me from posting on DU.
Is that what you want? 
-Laelth
