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Home Front: Politix
Hillary Thought Libya Would be Her Stepping Stone to the Presidency
2016-11-14
[Unz Review] It is not hard to think of reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be President. Yesterday Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cited one of the best: Libya.

In an interview with John Pilger, a noted Australian-born documentary maker and veteran critic of American military adventurism, he commented: "Libya more that anyone else’s war was Hillary Clinton’s war. Barack Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person who was championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s documented throughout her emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails out of the 33,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails we published just about Libya.

"She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state as something that she would use to run in the general election for president. So late 2011, there’s an internal document called the ’Libya Tick Tock’ that is produced for Hillary Clinton, and... it’s a chronological description of how Hillary Clinton was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state."

Things did not quite follow the script, however. For a start, U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and several other U.S. citizens were massacred when U.S. facilities in Benghazi were ransacked. The attacks were facilitated by security lapses for which Clinton was forced to take responsibility.
Con't.

She needed a UBL moment and it all turned to kak.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  The link just worked for me, Elmavish Panda1401. Would you be so kind as to check again and report back, so we can pinpoint the problem? Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-11-14 12:59  

#8  Broken link. Doesn't rantburg have an automated 404 checker?
Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401   2016-11-14 12:25  

#7  Libya should have been her tombstone.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-11-14 12:07  

#6  Left out of this was the "business" aspect. Somebody wanted to make money off of R2P.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-11-14 11:56  

#5  Link fixed.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-11-14 11:25  

#4  The Dems were the inventors and chief users of "Wag the Dog".

Need a poll boost? Need to deflect a scandal? Need some legacy? WtD!!
Posted by: AlanC   2016-11-14 11:04  

#3  Probably would have been, if she'd managed to handle it correctly.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-11-14 09:27  

#2  I wonder if Bill decided to bomb Serbia in 1998 on his's own or followed Hillary's advice?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-14 08:35  

#1  As post-election analysis go, this is certainly as plausible as any.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-11-14 08:33  

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