Voted in favor of killing loads of Arabs in Iraq for no particular reason And the clownshoes award for the day goes to… drum roll, Sen. Hillary Clinton, for coming up with a quote about Iraq that could basically be described as freaking idiotic. I know she’s pictured with a book about Iraq here, but I’m figuring that on the other side of those covers is a cooing love letter from Joe Lieberman seeking another chance at the VP spot.

Let’s see, we’ve got anarchy running on five years since the U.S. stormed into Iraq in search of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction1 and basically broke every international law in the book2. Now, half a decade on, they’ve got no running water or reliable electricity for the vast majority of the population, daily murder counts in the double digits, suicide bombings, civil war, more torture centers than Saddam himself was operating, theft of natural resources by foreign companies, gangs of military contractors shooting up the place, scared shitless, ill trained and ill equipped U.S. soldiers shooting at anything that moves3, a death toll somewhere in the high hundred thousands to a cool million4, and what does the Presidential hopeful let crawl out of her mouth:

Sen. Hillary Clinton: “I have been outlining plans as to what we can and must do to begin bringing our sons and daughters home. I am convinced that we can start within sixty days and do it in a responsible and careful manner, recognizing that the Iraqi government has to take responsibility for its own future, that we have given them the precious gift of freedom, and it is up to them to decide whether or not they will use it. But we cannot win their civil war. There is no military solution.”5

Again, that’s the “precious gift” of freedom. Freedom from what? A chance to live? Priceless. Fucking priceless. In the Mastercard ad sense of the word.

Footnotes
  1. There was no proof of a weapons stockpile when the allegation was made, which was known by Congress and the White House. UN weapons inspectors only proved this. [↩]
  2. There are no preventive wars. GlobalLaw [↩]
  3. The Winter Soldier testimonies cover this better than any media has. Iraq Veterans Against the War. [↩]
  4. In determining any resulting death toll, all deaths, including those that may not have occurred if the invasion hadn’t happened must be counted. MWC. [↩]
  5. Quote can be found all over. Here it is in all it’s glory at Democracy Now. [↩]
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