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amborin

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Mon Feb 1, 2016, 06:30 PM Feb 2016

TruthDigg: Want Endless War? Then Clinton is your choice

Want Endless War? Love the U.S. Empire? Well, Hillary Clinton’s Your Choice
By Marjorie Cohn —

If the candidate's foreign policy record is any guide, a Hillary Clinton presidency would perpetuate and bolster some of our most hateful national characteristics........Hillary Clinton likes to extol her foreign policy credentials, particularly her experience as secretary of state. She attaches herself to Barack Obama’s coattails, pledging to continue his policies.
But she is even more hawkish than the president


Clinton touts American exceptionalism, the notion that the United States is better than any other country.......It is this view that animates U.S. invasions, interventions, bombings and occupations of other countries. Under the pretense of protecting our national interest, the United States maintains some 800 military bases in other countries, costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually


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Obama, who continues to prosecute the war in Afghanistan 15 years after it began, is poised to send ground troops back to Iraq and begin bombing Libya. His aggressive pursuit of regime change in Syria was met with push-back by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to Seymour Hersh.


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/want_endless_war_love_the_us_empire_hillary_clintons_your_choice_20160201
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