Hillary Clinton: The Military-Industrial Candidate

[Lucille]

It's a long one, so here's a taste.

The Military-Industrial Candidate
Hillary Clinton prepares to launch the most formidable hawkish presidential campaign in a generation.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-candidate/

Analysts were right to say that the Republican takeover of Congress bodes well for the war machine: already we see the levers of power slowly shifting in reverse, eager to get back to salad days of post-9/11 wartime spending.

But waiting in the wings, Hillary Clinton just may prove to be what the defense establishment has been waiting for, and more. Superior to all in money, name recognition, and influence, she is poised to compete aggressively for the Democratic nomination for president. She might just win the Oval Office. And by most measures she would be the most formidable hawk this country has seen in a generation.

“It is clear that she is behind the use of force in anything that has gone on in this cabinet. She is a Democratic hawk and that is her track record. That’s the flag she’s planted,” said Gordon Adams, a national security budget expert who was an associate director in President Bill Clinton’s Office of Management and Budget.

Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who has spent her post-service days protesting the war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, is more blunt. “Interventionism is a business and it has a constituency and she is tapping into it,” she tells TAC. “She is for the military industrial complex, and she is for the neoconservatives.”

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Hillary is the new Scoop Jackson. Now all of the neoconservatives (Trotskyites) can return back to their home in the Democrat Party. Is it any surprise that many of them have left Fox News for the more openly leftist networks?

Maybe she'll pick Lindsey Graham as her running mate, and have Bill Kristol and Karl Rove as her campaign advisers.

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976.
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Jackson was often criticized for his support for the Vietnam War and his close ties to the defense industries of his state.
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Opponents derided him as "the Senator from Boeing" and a "whore for Boeing" because of his consistent support for additional military spending...
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Jackson...inspired a legion of loyal aides who went on to propound Jackson's philosophy as part of neoconservatism. In addition to Richard Perle, neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Charles Horner, and Douglas Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson

Dems Need Another Scoop Jackson
By Froma Harrop - November 23, 2005

The Democrats need a candidate like a Democrat they used to have. He was Henry "Scoop" Jackson -- a hawk abroad, a liberal at home.
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Jackson was the father of neoconservatism, a legacy that troubles some Democrats today. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz all worked for or with him. These Jackson alumni planned and promoted the Iraq war.
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More: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_23_05_FH.html

 

[PierzStyx]

That first paragraph is a joke. As Ron said, the Republicans are already eagerly lining up to support Obama's expansion of the foreign wars and military intervention.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

That first paragraph is a joke. As Ron said, the Republicans are already eagerly lining up to support Obama's expansion of the foreign wars and military intervention.

It seems like that is pretty much what the first paragraph says. We are going back to the Bush/neocon pro-war days that existed right after 9/11.

Analysts were right to say that the Republican takeover of Congress bodes well for the war machine: already we see the levers of power slowly shifting in reverse, eager to get back to salad days of post-9/11 wartime spending.

 

[Warlord]

She is also the Wall Street bankster bailout candidate.