Like I’ve been saying, the far left doesn’t really like her, either
Saturday’s Detroit town hall meeting for Hillary Clinton, sponsored by the Detroit and Michigan AFL-CIO, should dispel any illusion that the election of a Democratic president in 2008 will put an end to the aggressive, America-first foreign policy that produced the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The Democratic frontrunner told an audience of 600 people, mostly union officials and workers close to the union bureaucracy, that the solution to the problems of working people in the United States is a tougher line on trade with China, Korea, Mexico and other countries. At the same time, she portrayed the US debacle in Iraq as the fault, not of the Bush administration, but of the Iraqi people themselves.
Doesn’t sound like a lot of love, eh? Did I forget to mention that the article is from the World Socialist Web Site?
The bulk of Clinton’s speech was a litany of standard liberal promises of better jobs, better schools, better health care and a better environment. She pledged “quality, universal health care,†“revitalizing our manufacturing sector,†an Apollo-style government program to deal with the energy crisis, and a universal pre-kindergarten program to improve public education.
Feel the love!
According to Clinton, the failure in Iraq is the fault of the Iraqis. “The civil war is the Iraqis’ responsibility,†she said, adding that she would “tell the Iraqis there will be no more aid until they resolve their problems.†Again, the words are carefully chosen. She threatens a cutoff of “aidâ€â€”i.e., US subsidies to the Iraqi puppet regime—not a cutoff of funding for the US war, the only means by which the Democratic-controlled Congress could actually force an end to the war.
Oops! Guess she is sorta living in the reality of finishing what she voted for.
The union bureaucracy, steeped in chauvinism and nationalism, has no principled opposition to the war in Iraq—even now, after more than 3,500 US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. They look at the war exclusively from the standpoint of how it may affect the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party in 2008.
Sounds like most of the Democrat leaders, who are using the war, by being negative and anti-American, to regain power.
