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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Until you defend your claims of Hillary as a warmonger (which good lord, is that ever rhetoric and hysterics if I've ever heard it) I honestly refuse to respond to another post you make double- or triple-ing down on your support of Trump's awful statements.
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I'm not going full Buster here, and I absolutely don't support Trump over Clinton (or at all), but Hillary is pretty hawkish. That isn't a controversial stance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/ma...me-a-hawk.html
This is a pretty good recent article on it.
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It was July 2010, four months after the North Korean military torpedoed a South Korean Navy corvette, sinking it and killing 46 sailors. Now, after weeks of fierce debate between the Pentagon and the State Department, the United States was gearing up to respond to this brazen provocation. The tentative plan — developed by Clinton’s deputy at State, James Steinberg — was to dispatch the aircraft carrier George Washington into coastal waters to the east of North Korea as an unusual show of force.
But Adm. Robert Willard, then the Pacific commander, wanted to send the carrier on a more aggressive course, into the Yellow Sea, between North Korea and China. The Chinese foreign ministry had warned the United States against the move, which for Willard was all the more reason to press forward. He pushed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, who in turn pushed his boss, the defense secretary, to reroute the George Washington. Gates agreed, but he needed the commander in chief to sign off on a decision that could have political as well as military repercussions.
Gates laid out the case for diverting the George Washington to the Yellow Sea: that the United States should not look as if it was yielding to China. Clinton strongly seconded it. “We’ve got to run it up the gut!” she had said to her aides a few days earlier. (The Vince Lombardi imitation drew giggles from her staff, who, even 18 months into her tenure, still marveled at her pugnacity.)
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"Gates" is Robert Gates. W's last Secretary of Defense.