Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Jeremy Scahill — Clinton Is Legendary Hawk, but Sanders Shouldn't Get Pass on Role in Regime Change

Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald weigh in on comments from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her rival, Bernie Sanders, who have both supported the use of drones. Scahill notes that while Clinton is often portrayed as a more hawkish "cruise missile liberal," Sanders also supported regime change in the 1990s. "Bernie Sanders signed onto neocon legislation that made the Iraq invasion possible by codifying into U.S. law that Saddam Hussein’s regime must be overthrown," Scahill says, and "then supported the most brutal regime of economic sanctions in world history, that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis."…
AlterNet
Jeremy Scahill: Clinton Is Legendary Hawk, but Sanders Shouldn't Get Pass on Role in Regime ChangeAlterNet
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

1 comment:

Ryan Harris said...

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