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Title: Valerie Plame & Joe Wilson: America needs Hillary (LOL)
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URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini ... joseph-wilson-column/25707671/
Published: Apr 14, 2015
Author: Valerie Plame Wilson & Joseph Wilson
Post Date: 2015-04-14 14:45:33 by no gnu taxes
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We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back to before President Bill Clinton's first trip to Africa in 1998 — a trip that they both acknowledge changed their lives, and gave considerable meaning to their post-White House years and to the activities of the Clinton Foundation. Joe, serving as the National Security Council Senior Director for African Affairs, was instrumental in arranging that historic visit. Our history became entwined with Hillary further after Valerie's identity as a CIA officer was deliberately exposed. That criminal act was taken in retribution for Joe's article in The New York Times in which he explained he had discovered no basis for the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq War that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium to develop a nuclear weapon. When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise. She reminded us that the personal attacks on us were politically designed to deflect attention from the Bush administration's falsehoods. She urged us to remain strong in the face of their tactics of personal destruction. Smear campaigns should not trump the facts in the public square. Few people knew as well as she how searing these attacks could be, but if we stayed strong, she urged, we would be vindicated. We did, and she was correct. A decade later, all but the most self-deluded ideologues understand that the Bush administration misled the American people into war. President Barack Obama chose her as his Secretary of State in his first term because he recognized from the relationship they developed during the 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination that she was smart, tough and indefatigable. Hillary proved herself to be a trusted confidante and extraordinarily capable leader of his foreign policy team. Her commitment to service was once again on display, as it had been in Arkansas as a policy innovator, as the first lady who put women's rights on the international agenda and as the hard-working U.S. senator from New York. As Secretary of State, Hillary's tireless diplomacy helped repair our nation's international reputation after the damage caused by the disastrous policies of the Bush administration. But she did far more than help restore American prestige. Among her many achievements was forging the coalition, which included both Russia and China that imposed draconian economic sanctions on Iran. The results have now become clear. It was Hillary's resolute diplomacy that set the table for this potential historic breakthrough. There is no more critical national security priority than nuclear nonproliferation and when this framework agreement is finalized, the world will be a vastly safer place.
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Are they just trying to solidify the idea they were worthless useful idiots and political hacks? What tools.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Yep - just like the USSR needed Stalin
#2. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
America needs Hillary
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