The ever famed ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ has picked their candidate of choice: Hillary Rodham Clinton. When Hillary takes office, do not be prepared to see an anti-war populist of any sort.
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We can let Hillary back in to commit the same old blunders or vote for Obama to keep us from adding to our regrets. September Obama spoke against escalating threats against Iran; in October Hillary voted for the Lieberman/Kyle Amendment to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard terrorists and up the ante. We need a Commander in Chief worthy of the title, not a mouthpiece for the military contract lobby, foreign and domestic. The Clintons, after all, gave Blackwater their first contract.
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The added obscenity about Blackwater few ever mention (why, I wonder?) is that it got its first federal contract in 2000 under the Clinton Administration. See Jeremy Scahill's book talk on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_m4m62IfI&NR=1, 2 min. into the video, blink and you'll miss it! Why did Clinton give them their first federal contract?
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Obama speaks again on the contractor fiasco in Iraq, with a reminder of his amendment "Transparency and Accountability in Military and Security Contracting Act (S. 674)" to the defense appropriations bill to make contractors accountable for crimes, make them coordinate with troops, and document all the contractors and their expenses.
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