Posted on 02/15/2020 4:46:47 PM PST by Libloather
Bernie Sanders has won the popular vote in both the New Hampshire and Iowa presidential primary contests in considerable part by presenting himself as an opponent of war. Following the criminal assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani last month, Sanders was the most vocal of the Democratic presidential aspirants in criticizing Trump’s action. His poll numbers have risen in tandem with his stepped-up anti-war rhetoric.
He has repeatedly stressed his vote against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, reminding voters in the Iowa presidential debate last month, “I not only voted against that war, I helped lead the effort against that war.”
However, when speaking to the foremost newspaper of the American ruling class, the New York Times, the Sanders campaign adopts a very different tone than that employed by the candidate when addressing the public in campaign stump speeches or TV interviews.
The answers provided by Sanders’ campaign to a foreign policy survey of the Democratic presidential candidates published this month by the Times provide a very different picture of the attitude of the self-styled “democratic socialist” to American imperialism and war. In the course of the survey, the Sanders campaign is at pains to reassure the military/intelligence establishment and the financial elite of the senator’s loyalty to US imperialism and his readiness to deploy its military machine.
Perhaps most significant and chilling is the response to the third question in the Times’ survey.
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Crazy Bernie with nukes. That's pretty unsettling. Maybe the Times should've asked if the Bernster would try to influence Israel's elections like Hussein did. Socialists need to know.
Yes. If he found out they were moving away from a theocracy or communism..he would attack them.
It’s that rollickingly fun season of the year that is sweeping the nation!!!
ITS MODERATION SEASON!!!
Join in the fun as your favorite, radical, left wing loon puts on his moderate custom and hopes your too damn drunk to remember what they said two days ago!!
See Bernie promise to preemptively strike and enemy. Take a big swig from your favorite just of whiskey and forget that under a Bernie regime there won’t be any military to strike anything with.
Join in the fun today!!!
Very good. You must be the real Flip Wilson.
So Bernie like Hillary actually wants war, not peace.
Sent chills up my spine !!!
> : Would you consider military force to pre-empt an Iranian or North Korean nuclear or missile test? Answer: Yes. <
Maybe Bernie thought he said “Irish or South Korean”.
God help us Bernie with nukes..he would nuke Israel in a New York minute
I get that jut trying to imagine Bernie as Potus.
Presidents consider all sorts of things. Sanders simply said he would consider it -- doesn't mean he would do it.
WTF x 1000 is wrong with these leftists!!!! Hillary said the same thing. I could be wrong,but I rarely EVER hear a Republican talk like this. Who talks like this especially today?
War monga, war monga!
Nope. No visible bias in the media.
There goes half of his support!
I have supported attack on Iran since 1979. They are glad by religious fanatics who think they must bring about the end of the world to make way for the last Imam. They are constantly number 1 sin the CIUA and DOS lost for leading national exporter of terrorism in the world. They constant threaten us and Israel. They re devloiping nukes and ICBMs. WTH are we waiting for?
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