rssCLINTON CONFIRMATION: Clinton Won’t Ban State Department Security Contractors
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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“We have seen the abuses by contractors,” Clinton says, lamenting the overall trend of moving to a contracted State Department security workforce. “It’s been contractors across the board … I think we have to take a hard look about whether we want the U.S. government to be a contractor agency.” She declines to say, as she did during her presidential campaign, that the State Department should ban “mercenaries.”
Oh! Wait! There she goes: “Our civilian employees need to be protected. As we withdraw our troops, we have to get assurances of their protection by Iraqi troops, or we have to use contractors.” Well, so much for the campaign promise. Doug Brooks, you called it.
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Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
Carroll Quigley, Pres. Clinton's favorite prof, on elections in a democratic society:
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.”
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
gee aren't you clever!!! You forget to mention that Hillary is NOT THE PRESIDENT and she does not set policy, the president does, and since her campaign ENDED, complaining that she didn't keep her campaign promises is beyond ludicrous. What a bozo.
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
they don't need to ban them they just need to put them under US law.
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 9:02 pm
I don't think you're a bozo, but I agree otherwise with elRey above. Not only are Clinton's responsibilities different as Secretary of State they they might have been as president so may require different approaches, but she's now a member of Obama's cabinet and as such is an extension of his own views.
In effect, you're saying that the Obama administration just broke one of his primary opponent's campaign promises. I'll go out on a limb and say that's not exactly unusual.
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
Who is in charge of troop removal? The Defense dept, is it not? So who do you think actually made this decision? Hillary Clinton or Bill Gates and Barack Obama? Troop withdrawl is not in her purview. This may be the first example of Hillary being the team player she was expected to be by Barack Obama when he chose her, one who enacts his vison.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 7:41 am
Blackwater was a major contributor to the Clinton Foundation-but I'm sure that has nothing to do with this.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 8:39 am
It is possible that Senator and Secretary of State designee Clinton, has determined that it is not the security contractors are not the evil, instead it is the war profiteering Republican campaign contributors that are the danger.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 8:43 am
should have read : not the security contractors that are the evil; of course two negatives must cancel out.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Blackwater was a major contributor to the Clinton Foundation-but I'm sure that has nothing to do with this.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
It is possible that Senator and Secretary of State designee Clinton, has determined that it is not the security contractors are not the evil, instead it is the war profiteering Republican campaign contributors that are the danger.
Comment posted January 14, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
should have read : not the security contractors that are the evil; of course two negatives must cancel out.
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