THE VIOLENT CRIMES AND SHADY
DEALINGS OF HILLARY CLINTON
This is a well documented file on the FAKE progressive bla-bla of Mrs Clinton
Posted on December 13, 2015 by Robert Barsocchini
At the end of the year in which Hillary Clinton left her
position as Secretary of State, 2013, the Obama regime’s USA was voted, in Win/Gallup’s global poll,
as the greatest threat to peace in the world, with the runner-up, US-ally
Pakistan, receiving three times fewer votes, and Russia receiving twelve times
fewer votes.
This was largely due to multiple international crimes
committed by the US, such as aggressive bombings and subversions of elected
governments, which were co-schemed and staunchly advocated by Hillary Clinton,
and ultimately ordered and perpetrated by Barack Obama.
While “respected
conservative political commentator Norman Ornstein” writes
in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences journal that the
Republican Party is a “radical insurgency – ideologically extreme, scornful of
facts and compromise”, historian Roger Morris, PhD, in his best-selling examination
of the Clintons and their sleazy and criminal deeds along their rise to power,
finds that the Democratic Party, although in his opinion the “lesser of evils”,
is “equally bereft, corrupt, and unable or unwilling to face itself.” (468-9)
In the spirit of hope
and change, Hillary Clinton’s violent crimes and shady
dealings:
1-Hillary Clinton supported, in the 1980s, the US-proxy
terrorist insurgency in Nicaragua known as the Contras.
1.1Nicaragua pressed charges
against the US at the International Court of Justice, which ruled in favor of
Nicaragua and demanded the US pay approximately $18 billion in reparations for
unlawful use of force, i.e. terrorism and aggression. The US refused, and
instead vetoed Security Council resolutions that both condemned its actions and
called on all countries to adhere to international law. The US then increased
its terrorism against Nicaragua, and did not issue notice to the world that it
was now okay for other people to follow the US example and reject court
rulings.
1.2With Hillary Clinton as his
close “partner in power”, Bill Clinton was likely involved in coordinating drug
and gun shipments into and out of the US through a rural airstrip in Mena,
Arkansas. The federal government was running Contra operations from the
airbase while Clinton was governor of that state. (see Morris)
2-Of the corruption of the
‘Clinton Foundation’, Ken Silverstein notes in Harper’s Magazine:
“…the Clintons have used their
foundation for crass profiteering and influence peddling. If the Justice
Department and law enforcement agencies do their jobs, the foundation will be
closed and its current and past trustees, who include Bill, Hillary, and
Chelsea Clinton, will be indicted. That’s because their so-called
charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich
Clinton family friends.
“The Clinton Foundation is a professionally
structured money-laundering operation” that operates a “dirty slush fund.”
“Its biggest donors include some
truly wonderful people and countries. There are, to name a few, the
torture-happy, terror-exporting government of Saudi Arabia; a foundation
controlled by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch accused of bribery and
corruption; and Frank Giustra, a penny-stock artist who became filthy rich with
the generous assistance of Bill Clinton. In 2008, a former Kazakh official told
reporters that Giustra, who established the CGEP with Clinton, donated millions
to the foundation after Clinton
helped him purchase uranium deposits in Kazakhstan. (At the time, Giustra
denied this claim, pointing out that he had been engaged in mining deals in
Kazakhstan since the 1990s.)”
“The Clinton Foundation has
received more than $1 billion over the years to purchase HIV/AIDS drugs for
poor people in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. However, [it] … clearly spent
far, far less than it took in. In fact, the unit’s accounting practices
were so shoddy that its license was revoked by the state of Massachusetts,
where it was headquartered.”
“Democrats and Clinton apologists
will write these accusations off as conspiracy mongering and right-wing
propaganda, but it’s an open secret to anyone remotely familiar with accounting
and regulatory requirements for charities that the financial records are deliberately
misleading.”
3-Hillary Clinton supported aggressive US invasions
of or attacks against Haiti (1994, US-backed overthrow of
Haitian democracy), Bosnia (1995 – see below. At the end of 2013,
nearly half
of Bosnia and Herzegovina – 49% – viewed US as greatest threat to
world peace, with no other country coming close), and Kosovo (1999 – see
below).
4-Hillary Clinton supported the
Bill Clinton regime’s illegal bombing of Yugoslavia, an act of
aggression which Wesley Clark, the top US/NATO general involved, and who
recently advocated interning “radicals” in the US, calculated would worsen,
not improve, the conflict. As was reported
at the time, the US, with Hillary Clinton’s approval, “began bombing Yugoslavia
with no consideration for the possible impact on the Albanian people of
Kosovo.”
4.1 For her part,
Hillary Clinton personally called Bill from Africa at the time and later
reported of their conversation: “I urged him to bomb.”
4.2-As General Clark had warned,
the illegal bombing campaign worsened the regional violence; it was followed by
an increase in atrocities by both the besieged Serb and the US-backed KLA
forces.
4.3-In the year before the US
bombing, as documented
in a British Parliamentary report, the conflict had died down and was only
being sustained by members of the KLA who, on record,
said they were staging attacks to try to induce a response from the Serbs and
create a pretext for US/NATO to bomb, which would allow for further KLA
conquest.
4.4-Thanks to the bombing, “Kosovo[,]
with its massive U.S. army base, has become a global center of human,
human-organ and narcotics trafficking…”
4.5-The US/NATO bombing, along with
direct US support
for importing foreign fighters into the region, helped create a base in the
“heart of Europe” that has linked militant elements from the Middle East to
Europe and contributed towards recent attacks there.
4.6-Amnesty
International released a report which stated that NATO forces targeted
civilian Serbian radio, killing civilians.
The bombing
caused great damage to local civilians, including death, injury, severe
pollution, including through the US use of munitions made out of radioactive
nuclear waste, called “depleted uranium”.
Among many other locations, US/NATO
detonated explosives in the Ministry of Education in Novi Sad, premises
which administered social welfare programs.
Novi Sad residents point out that
the irony that Novi Sad was so heavily targeted by US/NATO also lies in the
fact that during the time of the bombing, the city was ruled by the local
Democratic Opposition, which was against the Serb regime in Belgrade.
4.7-US/NATO continues to occupy the
territory it conquered, which was formerly neutral and had resisted siding in
the Cold War and joining NATO.
4.8-Well known to Hillary Clinton,
similar or worse crimes than those cited by the US as its pretext for bombing
Yugoslavia were simultaneously being carried out by the US itself and its
clients/allies including Turkey, Indonesia, and Israel, with direct US
participation.
For example, the Clinton regime
supplied 80% of the weapons to Turkey to be used to ethnically cleanse the region
of Kurds, and US arms shipments to Turkey increased during the height of
Turkey’s atrocities, which involved “every
conceivable kind of torture and massacre”.
4.9-Hillary Clinton did not “urge”
her husband to bomb any of the criminal states the US was supporting, or to
bomb criminals in Washington for what they were doing. Like any good
expansionist, she chooses to attack only those targets whose defeat will allow
expansion of US military hegemony into as-yet unconquered areas, and
omits/dismisses/excuses/justifies the crimes of the US and groups already under
its thumb. (Ch.
4)
5-In 2000, Hillary Clinton said
she favored continuing the illegal US embargo against Cuba.
Ricardo Alarcon, PhD, calls the
illegal embargo the most “prolonged genocide in history”.
Evo Morales, president of Bolivia,
has said of that blockade that the “U.S government practices genocide against
the Cuban people”.
The blockade is opposed every
year in a UN vote by every
country in the world, aside from the US, Israel, and sometimes the “US
territories” of Marshall Islands (which were largely vaporized
and contaminated by US nuclear/human experimentation) and Palau.
This year, the vote against the
illegal US embargo was 191 to 2 – the world against the US and Israel.
With the US isolated and threatened
with being kicked out of important hemispheric organizations, Obama has finally
begun to lighten US terrorism against Cuba, which he had originally increased.
6-Hillary Clinton supported the US’s illegal bombing and invasion of Afghanistan,
which has killed tens
of thousands (and potentially hundreds of thousands) of people, according
to the most recent comprehensive study.
With Clinton’s direct involvement,
after the invasion, the US restarted a gas pipeline project that
it had trouble pushing through with the (originally US-backed) Taliban in
power. See below. US/NATO has now declared
that its occupation
of Afghanistan will continue indefinitely.
7-In 2001, Clinton called John
Walker Lindh, a former US soldier who was tortured in US custody, a traitor for
“supporting” the Taliban (see here).
She made this statement long before his trial (an ethical violation Obama
also committed regarding Chelsea Manning). However, research has revealed
no record of Clinton condemning as traitors any of the many US government
officials or corporate executives who, on record and openly under her husband’s
regime, supported the Taliban:
The US supported the efforts of oil
company Unocal to cooperate with the Taliban to build a natural gas pipeline
through Afghanistan. Meetings were being held for that purpose up to September
11, 2001. There was also a telephone company interested in Afghanistan.
Unocal’s pipeline project would
have brought natural gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan by crossing through
Afghanistan—a route purportedly preferable to alternative routes through Russia
or Iran.
Unocal CEO John Imle estimated that the company
spent between $15 and $20 million on its Central Asia gas pipeline (CentGas)
project, including on efforts to lobby the Taliban
Unocal also equipped the Taliban
with advanced technologies, such as satellite phones.
“…Unocal
–– had very close relations with the Taliban. They took their leaders on
junkets to their home bases, they gave them substantial help in the form of
office equipment, and they gave medical treatment to many of their leaders.
Unocal set up a training school for the Taliban in Kandahar.”
“[W]hen a
Clinton official was reminded that the Taliban persecuted women, he said, “We
can live with that.”
“…a strong campaign
[was] waged by rights activists in America, particularly the Feminist Majority
led by Eleanor Smeal and Mavis Leno, which lobbied Hillary Clinton and
Madeleine Albright very fiercely to stop the Unocal project and come out
against the Taliban’s repression of women. [But] the Clinton
administration viewed the Taliban’s rise favorably… [because, in addition to
other strategic reasons] the U.S. wanted to build this pipeline. There was
a lot of support from the Pentagon and the State Department for the Unocal
effort.”
“…as it
became clearer that Taliban policy-makers were beginning to lean toward
Bridas [a non-US oil company] by late 1997, the Clinton administration responded
by suddenly paying heed to human rights/women’s rights groups who had been
protesting Taliban conduct for the past two years. In November 1997, after
years of relative quiet, Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright publicly condemned the Taliban’s treatment of women…
[but] it was only when absolute [US] control of that oil was challenged
that the Taliban regime was openly discredited…”
“[In] August 1998, … the US
embassy bombings in East Africa (attributed to Usama bin Laden) prompted [Bill]
Clinton to… call for the Taliban to expel Bin Laden. Interestingly, the
latter’s presence in Afghanistan since 1996 had not stalled the courtship of
the previous years, despite being implicated in earlier acts of ‘terror'”
(ibid)
The US had also been sanctioning
Pakistan, but Clinton removed the sanctions to befriend Pakistan so the planned
pipeline could run through its territory to the coast. (ibid)
Lindh’s lawyers filed voluminous
documents establishing that he is the only person ever prosecuted for supporting
the Taliban, even though many firms and individuals had continued doing
business with the Taliban after Bill Clinton issued the executive order Lindh
was accused of violating.
Afghanistan was stable in the late
1970s and had featured strong women’s rights until the US, as it did in
Nicaragua, assembled a proxy army to conquer the country. After
intentionally contributing towards the deaths of about two million people (a
high US official, Brzezinski, said the US wanted to give the USSR, which was
backing the stable Afghan government, “its Vietnam”) and helping to bring the
Taliban to power, then, when it was uncooperative, pushing it out of power and
killing thousands, the US got an agreement from the US-installed Karzai regime
to build gas pipelines running from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, to
Pakistan’s coast. More info here.
However, the Taliban later came
back to prominence, and then, as Obama’s sec. of state, Hillary Clinton again
tried to get the Taliban to cooperate on the gas pipeline. (ibid)
8-As a person close to a VP of a major oil company told me,
it is “hard to tell where oil companies end and governments begin.”
Illustrating this dynamic, Hillary Clinton offered
her personal guarantee of US government backing to Chevron to increase Chevron’s credibility
in pursuing the Afghanistan gas pipeline project:
“…both Chevron and Exxon-Mobil have
expressed interest in TAPI [the pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan].”
However, Turkmenistan wanted a firm signal that the US government was
committed. That signal came from Hillary Clinton. The
president of Turkmenistan received “a letter backing Chevron’s project from
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.” (quoted WSJ article here)
After Clinton guaranteed US
government backing for Chevron to build the pipeline, Obama sent his own
personal letter to the president of Turkmenistan, backing Chevron and
“emphasizing a common interest in helping develop Afghanistan and expressing
[his] support for TAPI [pipeline] and his desire for a major U.S. firm to
construct it.” (WSJ)
In 2012, Obama boasted that “We’ve added enough
new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.”
9-As Secretary of State, Clinton
backed a major escalation of the US invasion of Afghanistan.
- With Clinton’s encouragement, Obama escalated the invasion from 30,000 to 100,000 soldiers or more.
- Of the 2,300 American soldiers who have died in the 12-year-old Afghan War, about 1,670 (or more than 70 percent) have died since Obama took office. Many were killed in the surge Gates, Petraeus and Clinton pushed for.
- As noted, US/NATO plan to remain indefinitely.
10-Hillary Clinton supported and
voted for the illegal US invasion of Iraq, a major crime of aggression
and terrorism. The invasion resulted in the most
deadly war for journalists in history, destabilized the entire region, inspired and
allowed the creation and rise of ISIS, and has directly and indirectly
killed somewhere from a million to 2 million or
more people.
On October 11, 2002, Clinton voted
in favor of the invasion, committing the “supreme crime”, as defined by
the US.
“Former administration officials
also tell TIME that Clinton was an advocate for maintaining a residual troop
force after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq… ” – TIME
“As Obama [following Bush’s
timetable for withdrawal, created under Iraqi pressure] began withdrawing U.S.
troops from Iraq, Clinton supported an effort to leave behind several thousand
soldiers…” – TIME
At
the height of the illegal US occupation of Iraq, the US bolstered its
presence with private contractors. Even when the military began leaving,
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was
openly talking about establishing a private, State Department-run
“army” of contractors to fight in Iraq.
Clinton claims she opposed the Iraq
‘surge’, a euphemism for a massive escalation of the invasion, for purely
political reasons, while personally supporting it, and even reportedly saying
“The Iraq surge worked”, here.
11-Hillary Clinton supports
torture, including freezing temperatures (inducing hypothermia) and
waterboarding, which the US classes as a war crime but does not punish unless
perpetrated by competitors (see here):
“This procedure
[waterboarding] is recognized internationally as a cruel and inhuman method
[of] torture, and the US itself sentenced a Japanese soldier to 15 years in
prison on war crimes charges for using the technique [of waterboarding] against
an American prisoner of war. It has been banned by US law and explicitly
repudiated by the military in the latest Army Field Manual.”
“A nation that has so often carried
out military aggression, wantonly attacked civilian populations and targets,
destroyed entire societies, used weapons of mass destruction, and used its
armed might to crush oppositional movements around the world – killing millions
and displacing tens of millions more in the process – cannot be expected to shy
away from torture and other atrocities as it routinely goes about its global
business.” – Prof. Carl Boggs, “Crimes of Empire”, pg. 208. Cont’d:
Torture and other comparable forms
of inhumane treatment have been explicitly outlawed since WW2.
The 1948 Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, article 5, states: “no one shall be subjected to torture or
to cruel, inhumane, or degrading punishment.”
Geneva Convention III, article
49, states: “prisoners of war must at all times be treated humanely”
and (article 17) “no physical or mental torture, nor any other form
of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information
of any kind whatever.”
These rules are to be applied
uniformly, with no exceptions, and to be extended not just to members of armed
forces but to militias, volunteer groups, resistance movements, and
insurgencies.
The Convention Against Torture
(1984) directs each state party to incorporate torture as an offense
within its criminal law (Article 4).
The Rome Statutes of the
ICC define torture and other abuses of prisoners as a war crime.
The US is a signatory to the UDHR,
the Geneva Conventions, and the Convention Against Torture.
This has not deterred Washington
from setting up its own outlaw regimen for treating prisoners and others under
its control.
12-Hillary Clinton supports the
illegal annexation
of Palestine by Israel, which is opposed by the
vast majority of states in the world (usually about 165) and supported only by
the US, Israel, and a handful of other countries (usually about 5 to 7)
including five US-dependent island nations.
Israel’s illegal bulldozing of
Palestinian homes and replacement of them with Israeli homes went up over 75%
in 2013. (More
info.)
As with its illegal embargo of
Cuba, the US is isolated in the world in preventing international law from
being applied to Israel to make it stop ethnically cleansing and colonizing
Palestine.
Every year the UN votes on the
issue of Israel’s colonization of Palestine, and the vote is virtually the
whole world in favor of decolonization and Israel’s return to its legal borders
(pre-June, 1967).
Every major human rights
organization agrees.
All 22 states in the Arab League agree.
In 2004, the highest legal body in
the world, the International Court of Justice, issued a ruling and agreed that
Israel must decolonize Palestine and return to its legal borders. All
fifteen judges agreed, including the judge from the US.
13-Hillary Clinton supported the
US-backed Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.
- “We are here to show solidarity and support for Israel. We will stand with Israel, because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli ones.” – Hillary Clinton
- The vast majority of the Lebanese killed were civilians; UNICEF estimates that 30% of those killed were children under the age of 13.
- The United Nations Development Program initially estimated that Israel destroyed about 35,000 Lebanese homes.
- After a UN ceasefire was negotiated, Israel saturated Southern Lebanese villages with 4 million cluster bombs (many of them provided by the US).
- 1 million Israeli bombs failed to explode on impact, lingering as land mines that killed or maimed almost 200 people since the war ended. As of 2011, munitions were still causing casualties and being cleared by volunteers.
- Parts of southern Lebanon remained uninhabitable.
- This is the second largest example of cluster bomb use, after the US use of cluster bombs against Iraq in the early 1990s.
14-Hillary Clinton’s State Department “helped enable Obama’s
expansion of lethal drone strikes. In fact, Clinton may have
been the administration’s most reliable advocate for military action.” – TIME
- Use of drones (used by the US mainly to execute suspects without trial, including in “double-tap” strikes meant to kill first-responders, and often while people attend weddings and funerals) has been increased 300% since Bush, killing thousands, mostly civilians, though executing suspects without trial, and by blowing them up, is just as criminal.
- The US’s “Hell-Fire” drone rockets have a kill/injury radius of 60 feet.
15-Hillary Clinton supported the illegal US bombing of Libya,
which destroyed the country. ISIS has now taken control of large areas.
- The US said it was going to impose a ‘no-fly zone’ over the country, but instead used that as a pretext for aggression. Bombing was a violation of the UN resolution.
- According to The New York Times, the deciding push to commit aggression against Libya came from Hillary Clinton.
- “We came, we saw, he died.” – Hillary Clinton responding to the news of Muammar Gaddafi’s execution at the hands of US-backed rebels. She then began laughing. At least one commentator has pointed out that her statement is a reference to: “I came; I saw; I conquered”, a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar, who supposedly used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate around 46 BC after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela.
- “The political grief Clinton has suffered over the September 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, comes with an ironic twist: the tragic episode might never have occurred [obviously would never have occurred] had Clinton not supported” illegally bombing Libya. – TIME
- “Before the bombing, Libya was the richest country in Africa and on track to attain all the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). After the bombing it is likely Libya will not attain any of the MDGs and it has become a failed State.”
- The bombing was also a violation of US law, as it was unauthorized by congress.
- More.
16-Hillary Clinton supports
aggression against Syria, both overt and covert, with the goal of illegally
overthrowing the UN-member government there:
- US and Saudi-backed fighters have killed hundreds of thousands in Syria.
- “She pressed Obama to arm the Syrian rebels, and later endorsed air strikes against the Assad regime”, while the US lied, saying it knew Assad had carried out chemical attacks. She also supported US bombing of the Syrian government, “apparently undaunted by polling that showed more than 70 percent of Americans opposed to military action.” (Quote from Time)
- Clinton teamed up with David Patraeus, John McCain and Lindsey Graham to push for arming terrorists in Syria.
- Arming an insurgency to attack a UN member state is classed under international law as aggression, the supreme crime.
- The US has been trying to install a puppet government in Syria since about 1948; it agreed with Britain “to use Arab extremists – including the Muslim Brotherhood – to effect regime change in Syria” in 1957, planned “another round of regime change in Syria” in 1991, and in 2006/7 began trying to stoke sectarian divisions and paranoia to promote an uprising against and violent overreaction by Assad, according to Wikileaks documents and US government sources like Wesley Clark.
17-Hillary Clinton backed a
fascist military dictatorship in a coup to overthrow Honduras’s elected
government in 2009.
The coup, condemned by the entire
world (except the US) in the UN General Assembly, succeeded
“because of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
“When
a fascist putsch … overthrew at gunpoint the popular progressive democratic
President of Honduras on 28 June 2009, and all countries of the world except
Israel and the United States promptly declared the junta-installed government
illegitimate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused to join all other
nations in rejecting the fascist regime… Hillary Clinton supported the
fascists.”
“…instead [of joining the entire
world and condemning the coup], she joined with then-Senator Jim DeMint (now
head of the Heritage Foundation and the chief sponsor of the political career
of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz) in propping up the fascist regime. Promptly Honduras
descended into hell, suddenly having the world’s highest murder-rate, and
becoming a haven of narco-trafficking. What was Hillary thinking? She expressed
contempt for Zelaya, but what was really happening here was that American
international companies liked paying their Honduran contractors sub-human wages
to workers at their plants in Honduras. The Honduran aristocrats owned those
factories, and the U.S. aristocrats shared with them the profits from this
“free-market” slavery. What did Hillary care about the ongoing terror, murders,
and soaring narco-trafficking?”
“Hillary Clinton as the Secretary
of State… displayed a record of carrying out the policies that were being
promoted by her lobbyist friends, when she did
everything possible, early in President Obama’s first term, to support U.S.
funding for the fascist junta in Honduras that perpetrated a coup
d’etat on 28 June 2009 overthrowing that nation’s popular progressive
democratically elected President, and who then installed their own regime, and
promptly placed their country into a continuing violent terror that caused
Honduras ever since to be the nation with the highest murder rate in the world.
Hillary’s lobbyist friend in that particular matter was Lanny Davis, who also
is an occasional Fox News contributor.”
The
US Department of State had prior knowledge of the coup. The Department of
State and the US Congress funded and advised the actors and organizations in
Honduras that participated in the coup. The Pentagon trained, schooled,
commanded, funded and armed the Honduran armed forces that perpetrated the coup
and that continue to repress the people of Honduras by force.
More info here,
here,
here
(second link is to video that includes Honduran students holding tear gas
cans with “Made in USA”)
18-Hillary Clinton signed an
agreement committing $124 million tax dollars to the building of the Caracol
sweatshop assembly park in the north of Haiti.
The
agreement includes tax breaks for sweatshop bosses. Workers there are
making the starvation wage of about $3.50 a day.
19-Has expressed support for US
government control over the Internet:
“We’re all going to have to
rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments
are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function
or gatekeeping function.” -Hillary Clinton
20-Denounced Edward Snowden’s
whistle-blowing as “outrageous”.
Also denounced China for not
arresting Snowden, as if the US would arrest a Chinese or Russian
whistle-blower seeking refuge in the US.
The Obama/Clinton regime waged
what has been widely called
a “war on whistle-blowing”, persecuting more whistle-blowers than all previous
US presidents combined while classifying massive troves of government
documents.
21- Cables leaked by Chelsea
Manning reveal Hillary Clinton’s “extreme hatred for democracy” (Noam Chomsky) and
suppression of popular opinion.
While 77% of Arabs, at the time of
cable leak, viewed US and Israel as biggest threats to peace, only 10% viewed
Iran as a threat, and 57% thought Iran should have nuclear weapons as a
deterrent to invasion by the US and Israel. Yet, Clinton, illustrating her
preference, championed and reported only the opinions of US-allied Arab
dictators, and ignored the populations.
22- Hillary Clinton said of
US-backed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, whom Amnesty
International says
used rape as a weapon, “I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be
friends of my family.”
23-Hillary Clinton ordered
American officials to spy on high ranking UN diplomats, including British
representatives.
Secret
cables revealed that Mrs. Clinton, as Secretary of State, ordered diplomats
to obtain DNA, iris scans, and fingerprints, as well as credit card and
frequent flier numbers, passwords,
and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks
for official communications. It also included Internet and intranet
usernames, e-mail addresses, web site URLs useful for identification, and work
schedules. The targeted human intelligence was requested in a process
known as the National Humint Collection Directive, and was aimed at
foreign diplomats of US allies as well. Further leaked material revealed
that the guidance in the cables was actually written by the National
Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency before
being sent out under Clinton’s name, as the CIA cannot directly instruct State
Department personnel.
24-Hillary Clinton commits and
supports imperio-terrorism
against Iran.
She issues threats of force against Iran, which are illegal
under international law.
The
US “cannot take any option off the table [this means violence up to
and including nuclear bombings] in sending a clear message to the current
leadership of Iran – that they will not be permitted to acquire nuclear
weapons” – Hillary Clinton
Clinton voted for a symbolic non-binding amendment to label
the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution as a “foreign
terrorist organization,”… Democratic opponents criticized her for
contributing to what they said was Bush administration saber rattling on Iran.
Regularly contributes to US
propaganda efforts against Iran:
“If Iran were to launch a nuclear
attack on Israel what would our response be? I want the Iranians to know that
if I’m the president, we will attack Iran. That’s what we will do. There is no
safe haven.” Hillary Clinton continued, “Whatever stage of development they
might be in their nuclear weapons program [the one the UN and US spy
departments say does not exist] in the next 10 years during which they may
foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally
obliterate them.” Iran complained to the UN about her comments.
Obama chastised Clinton for this,
saying her words were “reminiscent
of George Bush“.
Clinton stated
that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful; this is a propaganda
statement, as all evidence, including UN inspections, suggests Iran’s program
is peaceful. The statement also ignores that the US is and many of its allies
are nuclear states, and that the US is in vast violation of nuclear weapons
law, while Iran is not.
Clinton
“acknowledged that the harsh US sanctions [against Iran] were intended to
target and send the people of Iran a message”, i.e., she openly acknowledges
collectively punishing civilians; imperio-terrorism.
The 1977 Additional Protocols to
the 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibit any measure that has the effect of
depriving a civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival.
Article 70 of Protocol I mandates relief operations to aid a civilian
population that is “not adequately provided” with supplies and Article 18 of
Protocol II requires relief operations for a civilian population that suffers
“undue hardship owing to a lack of supplies essential for its survival, such as
foodstuffs and medical supplies.”
Art. 70 of Additional Protocol I of
Art. 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits interfering with
delivery of relief goods to all members of the civilian population.
Above: Global military
expenditures. Iran’s are not high enough to be included on this chart.
Middle East expert Professor Juan
Cole on the above graphic, titled “US Military Bases Encircle Iran”: “I had
grabbed an earlier version of this graphic off a Democratic Underground
bulletin board from 2005. It made the point that the United States, which
professes itself menaced by Iran, rather has Iran encircled by military bases.
I have tried to update the map a bit, though this area is a moving target and
the map no doubt isn’t perfect. It is expressive enough, however, of the
reality. Iraq and Uzbekistan no longer have American bases, but the US military
now
has a refueling station in Turkmenistan.”
US is currently engaging in campaign
of expansion of its approximately 1,400
already-existing foreign military bases. For comparison, Russia has about 12,
and China zero. The second largest empire, the British Empire, at its height
had 40.
25-In 2009/10, Hillary Clinton
led the opposition to any negotiated settlement to end the US torment of Iran
and instead pushed for further sanctions.
“To clear the route for the
harsher sanctions, Clinton helped sink agreements tentatively negotiated with
Iran to ship most of its low-enriched uranium out of the country. In 2009, Iran
was refining uranium only to the level of about 3-4 percent, as needed for
energy production. Its negotiators offered to swap much of that for nuclear
isotopes for medical research.
In spring 2010, Iran agreed to
another version of the uranium swap proposed by the leaders of Brazil and
Turkey, with the apparent backing of President Obama. But that arrangement came
under fierce attack by Secretary of State Clinton and was derided by
leading U.S. news outlets, including editorial writers at the New York Times
who mocked Brazil and Turkey as being “played by Tehran.”
The ridicule of Brazil and Turkey
as bumbling understudies on the world stage continued even after Brazil
released Obama’s private letter to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva encouraging
Brazil and Turkey to work out the deal with Iran. Despite the letter’s release,
Obama didn’t publicly defend the swap and instead joined in scuttling the deal,
another moment when Clinton and administration hardliners got their way.”
– Robert Parry
Mercifully, Clinton now endorses
Obama’s campaign to lighten the US torture of Iran; “…not a day has passed
since 1953 in which the U.S. was not harming Iranians.” – Prof. Chomsky
To right-wingers willing to
look beneath what probably sounds to them like the same identical views of the
Democratic candidates, it is pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is the most
conservative.” – Bruce Bartlett, policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan;
treasury official under President George H.W. Bush, from America’s venerable
conservative magazine, William Buckley’s National Review”
We also hear from America’s
premier magazine for the corporate wealthy, Fortune, whose recent cover
features a picture of Clinton and the headline: “Business Loves Hillary”.”
26-“Back
to 2013: In October, the office of billionaire George Soros, who has
long worked with US foreign policy to destabilize governments not in love with
the empire, announced that “George Soros is delighted to join more than one
million Americans in supporting Ready for Hillary.”
Even the highly establishment and
“pro-Democrat” publication Time says of Hillary Clinton, the “truth is
impossible to deny. Clinton has demonstrated a well-documented willingness to
use American military power overseas [ie commit aggression, imperio-terrorism]. Gates’ book is just the latest evidence, along with
previous reporting and original interviews with current and former Obama officials,
of the strikingly hawkish voice Clinton offered during Obama Situation Room
debates. …In fact, Clinton may have been the [Obama] administration’s
most reliable advocate for military action. On at least three crucial
issues—Afghanistan, Libya, and the bin Laden raid—Clinton took a more
aggressive line than Gates, a Bush-appointed Republican.”
27-According to TIME,
though it seems like a pro-Democrat-biased claim, Hillary Clinton may have to
defend her militant extremism against some less-hawkish Republican opponents.
For example “a GOP nominee could bash Clinton for defying public opinion
[and committing war crimes against] Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.”
28-In
August, the New Republic asked the war and torture
advocate Republican senator John McCain whom he would support in a matchup
between Democrat Hillary Clinton and the Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul,
a critic of
American imperialism. McCain’s answer: “Tough choice.”
- In 2003, Hillary Clinton said she was “a strong believer in executive authority”.
This was also reflected in her
staunch advocacy for carrying out aggression against Libya, an international
crime, without even seeking approval from congress.
29-With Clinton as Secretary of
State, the Obama regime vastly increased US sponsorship of Saudi
Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest
supporter of militant Islamic groups such as the Taliban
in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Saudi
government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton said in a 2009 cable obtained by Wikileaks.
“Saudi Arabia remains a critical
financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and
other terrorist groups.” – Leaked 2009 paper signed by Clinton
Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute
the most “significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,”
according to the Clinton cable.
Drew C. Bailey, a spokesman for the
state department, declined to comment.
- In 2010, the Obama regime signed a deal for the biggest weapons shipment in US history, 60 billion dollars’ worth, to Saudi Arabia. The US was already, and has long been, the world’s biggest arms trafficker.
30-On Keystone XL pipeline:
Eric Zeusse in Huffington
Post:
“TransCanada Corporation wants to
build the Keystone XL Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta Canada’s tar sands to
two refineries owned by Koch Industries near the Texas Gulf Coast, for export
to Europe; and Hillary Clinton has helped to make that happen.
Secretary of State Clinton, whose
friend and former staffer Paul Elliot is a lobbyist for TransCanada,
had worked behind the scenes to ease the way for commercial exploitation of
this, the world’s highest-carbon-emitting oil, 53% of
which oil is owned by America’s Koch Brothers.
David Goldwyn, who “served as Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy
Affairs,” is yet another lobbyist for TransCanada.So,
TransCanada has two of Hillary’s friends working for them. Misters Elliot and
Goldwyn thus worked intimately with Hillary’s people to guide them on selecting
a petroleum industry contractor (not an environmental firm, much less any
governmental agency) to prepare the required environmental impact statement for
this proposed pipeline.
Secretary Clinton’s State
Department thus
allowed the environmental impact statement on the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline
to be performed by a petroleum industry contractor that was chosen by
the company that was proposing to build and own the pipeline, TransCanada. That
contractor had no climatologist, and their resulting report failed even at its
basic job of estimating the number of degrees by which the Earth’s climate
would be additionally heated if this pipeline is built and operated. Their
report ignored that question, and instead evaluated the impact that climate
change would have on the pipeline, which was estimated to be none.”
- Hillary Clinton says US military bases in the Middle East should be maintained without time constraints. (Pp. 244)
31-Some of Clinton’s top 100
supporters from 2003 to 2008:
News Corporation
(Fox News; Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch on US Iraq
invasion: “Once Iraq is behind us, the whole world will benefit from
cheaper oil.”); JPMorgan Chase
& Co; Goldman Sachs; Citigroup Inc; Morgan Stanley; Time Warner; Lehman
Brothers; Merrill
Lynch; Bank of
America; General
Electric; Walt Disney Co; International
Profit Assoc.
- Full list here
32-In 2005, Clinton said she supports Israel’s
illegal annexation wall.
Every global authority has declared the wall to be illegal
if it cuts into Palestinian territory.
Even George W. Bush said of the
wall in 2005, “I
think the wall is a problem. And I discussed this with Ariel Sharon. It is
very difficult to develop confidence between the Palestinians and Israel with a
wall snaking through the West Bank.”
Colin Powell in 2003: “A nation is
within its rights to put up a fence if it sees the need for one. However, in
the case of the Israeli fence, we are concerned when the fence crosses over
onto the land of others.”
33-The
Clintons presided over most of the US/UK-led genocide against Iraq
carried out through sanctions
in the 1990s and up to 2003 (the sanctions were in fact only one aspect).
The UN finds that the sanctions
killed about 500,000 children under the age of five.
In 1991, the Bush Sr. regime
implements sanctions and intentionally
destroys Iraq’s clean water supply. Bill Clinton, in full
knowledge that the sanctions are fatally harming Iraqi civilians en
masse, mostly children and the elderly, continues them through his entire
presidency, 1993 to 2001.
“We are in the process of
destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is
illegal and immoral.” – Denis Halliday, after resigning as first UN Assistant
Secretary General and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, to protest the
sanctions, which he called deliberately genocidal. – The Independent,
15 October 1998
- “I was instructed to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide — a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults.” – Denis Halliday
Halliday’s successor, Hans von
Sponeck, also resigned in protest of the sanctions, which he also referred
to as deliberate genocide.
Jutta Burghardt, head of the World
Food Program in Iraq, resigned in protest of the sanctions two days after von
Sponeck.
70 members
of US congress went further, calling the sanctions a campaign of “infanticide”,
the intentional extermination of infants.
But Hillary
Clinton stayed on board. “Her reaction [to the sanctions] can be summed in
a single word. Silence.”
- Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, took action, going on 60 Minutes to say, in response to the host’s question about “five hundred thousand children” dying, that the sanctions were “worth it.” Albright has been a “close friend of [Hillary] Clinton and serves as her top informal adviser” on foreign policy matters.
The US per capita equivalent of the number of Iraqis killed
by these sanctions is so high it becomes ridiculous to write about. It is
roughly somewhere from 7 to 25 million people, depending on the estimate of the
number of people killed and which Iraqi and US population measurements should
be used, and how population flux after initiation of the attack is taken into
account. The US per-capita equivalent of the overall number of Iraqis killed by
the US or with US complicity since approximately 1982 may be up to about 60
million, again depending on method of measurement.
“Iraq’s main crime,” says Middle
East expert Prof. Juan Cole, “appears to have been to be an oil state not
compliant with US demands.” Despite the US’s “violation[s] of the UN charter
and its war crimes in Iraq, none of its high officials [have] faced
prosecution. Some of them [such as Hillary Clinton] even have the gall to come
on television from time to time to urge more killing.”
Former US attorney general Ramsey
Clark says the
“cruelty” inflicted by the US against Iraq is “unprecedented in history.” But
most US citizens, thanks to a combination of propaganda and willful ignorance,
have no idea what has been done.
34-Democracy Now says Hillary Clinton should be questioned on her
role in sending weapons and sniper training, through the 1990s, to the US proxy
dictator in Indonesia, General Suharto. Suharto was carrying out a
genocide against the peasantry of East Timor, exterminating approximately one
fifth to one third of the population. If Hillary Clinton didn’t have a role,
says DM, she should be asked why she didn’t speak out publicly and
protest what her husband was doing, a question that should be applied to many
other of her husband’s policies, including other genocides.
The US provided 90% of the weapons
for the Indonesian massacre and occupation of East Timor, with US weapons
shipments to Indonesian General Suharto escalating for rearmament during his
worst atrocities.
In an interview shown at the above
link, Bill Clinton, questioned about US East Timor involvement, inadvertently
admits that US policy was to facilitate the genocide.
Readers seeking more information
on the US-backed genocide in East Timor should see the Yale University Genocide
Studies Program section on East Timor.
- And this lecture for a brief summary of US involvement and the US media’s suppression of information on the campaign.
35-Before the 1994 genocide in
Rwanda, the US trained a militia leader named Paul Kagame
at “Fort Leavenworth … the U.S. Army’s ‘commander general staff
college…where rising stars of the U.S. military and other places go to get
training as they are on track to become generals. The training that they get
there is on planning large scale operations. It’s not planning small-scale
logistic things. It’s not tactics. It’s about how do you plan an invasion. And
apparently [Kagame] did very well.’”
Kagame and his US proxy army then,
an eight year investigation
suggests, assassinated the Rwandan president by bombing his plane. They then
invaded Rwanda, ethnically cleansing and killing thousands.
The resultant violence is what the Western propaganda system calls the
genocide of the Hutus against the Tutsis, but the minority, US-backed Tutsi
proxy army led by Kagame, not the majority Hutus, took over the country, in a
military operation that was clearly well-planned and coordinated. Since the
Kagame/Tutsi conquest of Rwanda, the US/Western client has used the seat of
power to invade the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing millions.
Professor Emeritus of Finance Edward Herman and journalist
David Peterson find in their book The
Politics of Genocide:
The Pentagon has very actively
supported these invasions of the DRC, even more heavily than it supported the
RPF’s drive to take Kigali [the capitol of Rwanda]. This support led to the
killing of many thousands of Hutu refugees in a series of mass slaughters (ca.
1994-1997), and also provided cover for a greater series of Kagame-Museveni
[the latter the US-backed Ugandan leader] assaults on the DRC that have
destabilized life in this large country of perhaps sixty million people, with
millions perishing in the process.”
This “process” has been “compatible
with Western interests and policy, as it” has “open[ed] … the DRC to a new
surge of ruthless exploitation of precious gems, rare industrial minerals, and
timber by Western companies in a different kind of “resource war”—a fine
illustration of “shock therapy” with murderous human consequences for the
Congolese people. This plunder is the equivalent of “one tsunami every six
months” for more than a decade, but with large gains for a small business and
military elite. In a series of UN reports, which coined the phrase “elite
networks” to denote the “politically and economically powerful groups involved
in the exploitation activities” that lie at the heart of the DRC genocide, we
read that “The war economy controlled by the three elite networks [Kinshasa,
Kigali, and Kampala] operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
dominates the economic activities of much of the Great Lakes region….Years of
lawlessness and a Government incapable of protecting its citizens have allowed
the armed groups to loot and plunder the country’s resources with
impunity….They have built up a self-financing war economy centered on mineral
exploitation”—and sales to the transnationals that manufacture the personal
computers and cell phones of our everyday lives.
The U.S.-supported leaders Paul Kagame and Yoweri
Museveni have undeniably been key actors in the terrible bloodbaths of the DRC.
Considering their U.S. support, these were benign bloodbaths, in contrast
with killings in Darfur or Kosovo. In research for our book, we found that in
only seventeen items in the large number of newspapers we surveyed did someone
refer to deaths in the DRC as “genocide.” This amounted to one “genocide”
reference for every 317,647 deaths (based on an estimated 5,400,000 deaths for
the period under consideration [investigative journalist, author, and documentarian Andre Vltchek puts
it at 6-8,000,000]).
When we contrast this with how the same newspapers treated, say, the nefarious
bloodbath of the Kosovo Albanians that was attributable to an official enemy,
where only twelve deaths were necessary to receive one “genocide” reference,
the basic outline of the politics of genocide could not be made more stark or
clear.
Very big lies about Rwanda are now
institutionalized and are part of the common (mis)understanding in the West. In
reality, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is one of the great mass murderers of our
time, far surpassing Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin. Yet, thanks to the
remarkable myth structure that surrounds him, he enjoys immense popularity with
his chief patron in Washington…
According to the US/Western “myth
structure, ‘The United States did almost nothing to try to stop [the Hutu
genocide],’ in Samantha
Power’s view, but instead ‘stood on the sidelines’ as ‘bystanders to
genocide.’ But this is doubly false. What the United States and its
Western allies (Britain, Canada, and Belgium) really did was to sponsor the
U.S.-trained Kagame; support his invasion of Rwanda from Uganda and the massive
ethnic cleansing prior to April 1994; weaken the Rwandan state by forcing an
economic recession and the RPF’s penetration of the government and throughout
the country; and then press for the complete removal of UN troops. They did
this because they didn’t want UN troops to stand in the way of Kagame’s
conquest of the country, even though Rwanda’s Hutu authorities were urging the
dispatch of more UN troops. … Whenever the United States colludes in
a genocidal process, Power pretends that U.S. guilt, at worst, comes from
remaining a mere “bystander”; never from acting as an accomplice, let alone a perpetrator.”
36-As noted by Hilzoy, a professor of philosophy
specializing in ethics, Hillary Clinton,
who certainly possessed key insider knowledge of the Rwanda-related events as
they were unfolding with the
involvement of her husband’s regime, evidently did nothing to try to convince
her husband to stop the actions he was carrying out that contributed towards
the devastation of Rwanda and the region.
Acknowledging how this makes her
look, Clinton and her husband have since claimed that in fact she did
try to press Bill “to intervene in Rwanda”. However, as Hilzoy notes, these
claims come exclusively from Hillary Clinton and her husband, and are
corroborated by no other source. Indeed, all known evidence is to the contrary.
The Chicago Tribune, quoted by Hilzoy, notes: “Despite lengthy memoirs
by both Clintons and former Secretary of State and UN Ambassador Madeleine
Albright, any advice she gave on Rwanda had not been mentioned until her
presidential campaign.” Indeed, Hilzoy finds, her claimed advocacy “left
no trace in the world.”
But worse, the very claims
made by the Clintons, that “not intervening” in Rwanda is one of Bill’s biggest
regrets and that Hillary tried to get him to “intervene”, themselves reveal
the Clintons’ continued dishonesty and complicity in the crimes: they did
intervene, to ensure that the US proxy army could conquer Rwanda. By saying
they should have intervened, the Clinton’s are 1) lobbying for future US
interventions by dishonestly claiming that these massacres occurred because the
US did nothing, when in fact the US assisted the massacres; and 2) lying to
cover both their criminal intervention and the rivers of blood flowing from the
Western government and
corporate-backed slaughter of millions upon millions of Africans for their
natural resources.
If Hillary Clinton could have been US president in 1800, she
would have fit right in, as she does today.
And, dear god, Trump and the others would be worse.
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Robert Barsocchini
focuses on force dynamics, national and global, and also writes
professionally for the film industry. Updates on Twitter.
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