Hillary's right: they're terrorists
Are Hillary Clinton's Democratic rivals so keen to bash her that they'll defend Iran's Revolutionary Guard?
Listening to yesterday's NPR debate from Iowa, it appears so.
Clinton was attacked for supporting a Senate resolution declaring the RG a terrorist organization.
A pretense for the Bush administration to order an attack, her critics said.
An unprecedented designation for a nation's armed forces, they added.
Joe Biden even blamed the resolution for driving up world oil prices -- a nutty claim that NPR "fact-checking" refuted this morning.
The State Department has listed Iran as a state sponsor of international terrorism since 1984. The RG is Iran's instrument for carrying out that support for terrorists. So why wouldn't the RG itself be called a terrorist organization?
Then there are its internal security functions -- little things like arresting women for showing their face in public and harassing other people who don't adhere strictly enough to Islamic law.
These guys aren't quite like the N.C. National Guard. Attacking Hillary Clinton for calling them what they are is going after the wrong villain.
Here's a report about the RG by the Center for Stratetic and International Studies.
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Clinton was attacked for supporting a Senate resolution declaring the RG a terrorist organization.* Doug
Hillary wouldn't know the different between the Republican presidental candiates [ except Ron Paul] who think the Blackwater Group is a peace loving group like the RG.
Posted on December 5, 2007 11:31 AM
Senator Joe Liebeman in a recent speech on 11/8/2007 commented on the Democrats misguided foreign policy priorities:
"....narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq....there is something profoundly wrong-something that should trouble all of us - when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran's murder of our troops, than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops."
HC has it right on this issue.
Posted on December 5, 2007 11:49 AM
Doug, a certain segment of the Democratic Party now believes any defense of America is automatically wrong, regardless of the circumstances. In their mind, the Bush Administration is a greater evil than Iran or Islamic terrorism in general.
I'm no fan of Senator Clinton, but I'm glad she isn't as wooly-headed on this issue as some of her fellow Democrats. I mean, heaven forbid we actually take a stand against people who, if given the means, would gladly kill us all.
Posted on December 5, 2007 12:57 PM
Although I agree that some members of the Revolutionary Guard might be terrorists, it seems unfair to paint the whole group with such a broad brush. The majority of Revolutionary Guard members are peace-loving citizens just like your neighbor Larry. To be sure, an ethnocentric perspective might view punishing women with exposed faces as an act of oppression, but the more enlightened among us honor cultural difference. Let's stop with the jingoistic nationalism and give peace a chance.
Posted on December 5, 2007 2:29 PM
I'm no fan of Senator Clinton, but I'm glad she isn't as wooly-headed on this issue as some of her fellow Democrats. I mean, heaven forbid we actually take a stand against people who, if given the means, would gladly kill us all.* Just saying
Sure you are! You are the biggest neo-con republican fan that Hillary can have. You really believe that Bentio Rudy can beat her with your pre-program Orwellian democrat-liberal, republican-conservative Paradigm myth. Yes! Heavens forbid, that the Blackwater group does not murder 17 more Iraqi's in the future as American private fascist army for peace.
Posted on December 5, 2007 4:44 PM