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Hillary's Vietnam
Townhall.com ^ | April 22, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 04/22/2015 6:41:16 AM PDT by Kaslin

Headless bodies lie in the sand. Above those corpses stand the black-clad minions of ISIS, outlined against the coastline of Libya. This is the second video in three months depicting Islamic terrorists cutting the heads off of Christian captives.

Bodies float in the Mediterranean Sea, face down. Twelve Christian bodies, thrown from a rubber boat by 15 Muslims. Their launch point: Libya.

Approximately 700 more bodies float face down in the Mediterranean, victims of a smuggling operation gone wrong when their rickety craft sunk as it made its way to Italy. Its source location: Libya.

Four American bodies in Benghazi, Libya.

These are the wages of Hillary Clinton's war.

In June 2006, as then-Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., prepared a run for president, she stated that President George W. Bush had "rushed to war" in Iraq. A few months later, Hillary spoke of her opposition to Bush's surge in Iraq, stating that it was a "losing strategy." Iraq, a war for which Hillary voted, had been conducted on the back of flawed intelligence estimates and without a clear plan.

Five years later, Secretary of State Clinton rushed to war, allegedly manufacturing evidence to do so, and with no plan whatsoever for victory. According to The Washington Times, Clinton "was the moving force inside the Obama administration to encourage US military intervention to unseat [dictator Moammar Gadhafi] in Libya." Clinton claimed that if the West did not intervene in Libya, Gadhafi would pursue a genocide against his enemies; in March 2011, she imagined a scenario in which "Benghazi had been overrun, a city of 700,000 people, and tens of thousands of people had been slaughtered, hundreds of thousands had fled. ..." That genocide never materialized, nor did the best intelligence estimates support that argument.

Not only that: Hillary also ignored all available evidence suggesting that the Libyan opposition was honeycombed with terrorists. She ignored Admiral James Stavridis, NATO Supreme Commander for Europe, who admitted "flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hezbollah." Al-Qaida backed the Libyan uprising. There was a reason that neither Hillary nor President Obama risked going to Congress for approval of the Libyan adventure: they would have been rejected.

Nonetheless, in October 2011, Hillary arrived in Tripoli to declare victory, stating that she was "proud to stand here on the soil of a free Libya." When Gadhafi was sodomized with a knife and killed two days later, she laughed uproariously on camera: "We came, we saw, he died!"

Gadhafi wasn't the only person who died. Hillary's war ended with terrorist chaos in Libya: a full-scale terror takeover of regions of the country including Benghazi, the exile of the legitimate government, a massive refugee crisis growing day-by-day amidst the upheaval. That refugee crisis has grown significantly worse since Hillary's war. As Vox.com, a leftist outlet, points out, 1,600 migrants "have drowned in the Mediterranean this year." Why? Again, according to Vox.com, when Moammar Gadhafi "ruled Libya, his government had an agreement with Italy to try to intercept and turn back ships leaving for Europe. ... And in the utter chaos that's engulfed Libya over the past few years, there's no government entity really capable of patrolling the Mediterranean."

Hillary Clinton's foreign policy has promoted chaos around the world. Nowhere is that better illustrated than in her signal foreign policy legacy, the collapsed state of Libya.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foreignaffairs; hillaryclinton; isis; islamicstate; libya

1 posted on 04/22/2015 6:41:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

She just got high marks from dem voters for her foreign affairs leadership.
Our job of making dems understand what is going on is akin to showing Hellen Keller how to read and write.


2 posted on 04/22/2015 6:45:08 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Kaslin

She is much better at obfuscation and destroying evidence than actually governing anything.

I wonder if she could actually manage a Chipotle?


3 posted on 04/22/2015 6:46:11 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: dp0622

She jailed the Coptic Christian who complained about the Muslims in Libya.


4 posted on 04/22/2015 6:47:57 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Fido969

If Cruz doesn’t win, then I will do everything in my power to undermine pantsuit.


5 posted on 04/22/2015 6:54:29 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Kaslin

Forget this stuff, there are more important issues. First we need to take care of Gay marriages, $15 minimum wage, free birth control, and equal pay. Protecting our borders, protecting our citizens from harm, helping our allies, who request military assistance to help preserve their freedom are all issues of minor importance, just like the economy. Bottom line, we need a woman President regardless of qualifications. Come 2024 we’ll probably need a transgender President. Amerikan voters must be on drugs, what the hell are they thinking?


6 posted on 04/22/2015 7:00:45 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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7 posted on 04/22/2015 7:07:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: The_Media_never_lie
I have never been into a Chipotle, so last week I thought I'll try it, went there for lunch. Please note there were only a couple of customers there. I looked at the list for items they had.

Of course I know what burritos and tacos are and need no picture of them. But what are Carnitas and Barbacoa? So I asked what are Carnitas, and the idiot behind the the counter said they are pork and she showed me a dish with that has shredded pork in it. I just shook my head and left

8 posted on 04/22/2015 7:11:53 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Blood is on the hands of this entire communists black Muslim regime and it includes the total Administration. Hillary is no excuse since her tenure has done nothing but worsen the middle east.
9 posted on 04/22/2015 7:44:04 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Kaslin

"We came, we saw, he died!"


10 posted on 04/22/2015 7:49:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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11 posted on 04/22/2015 7:55:59 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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12 posted on 04/22/2015 8:08:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Kaslin

The chicken bowls are actually quite good. You can actually make two meals of one order if you are so minded. The chips and salsa are also quite good. Adding $1.95 for guacamole is not worth it, IMHO.

I like Moe’s, too. Have to admit that I have not been to either in a while, though.


13 posted on 04/22/2015 8:52:12 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I want to see what the meal looks like before I buy it. I do know it wont look exactly like in the picture


14 posted on 04/22/2015 11:13:18 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Hillary's War--great material here for political ads during the campaign. I wonder if the RNC has the sense to go after her on this "Arab Spring" debacle?
15 posted on 04/22/2015 12:21:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Chipotle's is a marketing triumph. The food is over priced and actually not very authentic. But they are socially aware so all the little lefties love it. Sort of a Mexican Starbucks effect.
16 posted on 04/22/2015 12:24:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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If you like spicy, you would probably like it. Take a chance. Moe’s is less expensive, since they don’t charge for chips.


17 posted on 04/22/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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