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Partners in War
The Hillary and George Show
By Joshua Frank
02/07/06 "ICH" -- -- There aren't many elected officials in
Washington who want to throw the gantlet down on Iran more than
Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator believes the president has
been too soft on the militant Islamic country, claiming that
Bush has played down the threat of a nuclear-armed Tehran.
"I believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because
the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource
the negotiations," Clinton told an audience at Princeton
University on January 18. "I don't believe you face threats like
Iran or North Korea by outsourcing it to others and standing on
the sidelines We cannot and should not - must not - permit Iran
to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton added. "In order
to prevent that from occurring we must move as quickly as
feasible for sanctions in the United Nations."
Sen. Clinton has attempted to out-hawk Dubya on other foreign
policy matters, as well. From Iraq to Palestine, the Democratic
Party's leading lady argues that the current administration has
not done enough to combat the threat of terrorism. And like so
many other neoconservatives (yes, admit it, Hillary is a bloody
neocon), Clinton will never admit that the United States has
fallen right into the grasp of Al Qaeda by attempting to fight
stateless terror by walloping sovereign Arab countries.
And with the landslide Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian
elections, the US policy for the region isn't exactly producing
the kind of results Bush and his co-conspirators desired.
You certainly don't have to pull out a microscope to
differentiate between George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton. Both
want a continued occupation of Iraq. Both want sanctions on
Iran. And they both claim to want democracy in the Middle East.
Yet neither will accept a democratic outcome if it doesn't favor
US interests.
"Until and unless Hamas renounces violence and terror, and
renounces its position calling for the destruction of Israel, I
don't believe the United States should recognize them, nor any
nation in the world," Hillary Clinton said recently.
"[Y]ou're getting a sense of how I'm going to deal with Hamas
... And the answer is: not until you renounce your desire to
destroy Israel will we deal with you," Bush told the Wall Street
Journal in an interview during the elections in Palestine.
Even though both express a desire to democratize the region, and
in particular Iraq -- it is hard to imagine either allowing an
Iraqi government to form that expressed even the slightest
appreciation for the US occupation. And a democratic Iraq (where
the candidates aren't chosen by US officials) would likely
embody the same views as Iran concerning Israel.
Love for America in the Arab lands hasn't exactly prospered
these past years, and it will not likely be changing anytime
soon given the unified position of the Republican and Democratic
leadership in Washington.
So, there you have it. Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush, both
leaders of the respective parties, see eye to eye on the most
pressing concerns facing the US and the Middle East today. And
neither is offering up anything that will get us out of the mess
we helped to make.
Joshua Frank is the author of Left Out!: How Liberals Helped
Reelect George W. Bush, just published by Common Courage Press.
You can order a copy at a discounted through Josh's radical news
blog at www.BrickBurner.org.
Josh can be reached at
BrickBurner@gmail.com.
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