Why Senator Clinton? voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment?

Hillary's Mystery Money Men

By Russ Baker and Adam Federman, The Nation. Posted October 22, 2007.



The man who helped make Bush's first fortune now wants to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.?

In the Clintons' pursuit of power, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who'd slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial -- and still under wraps.

Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush's failing oil company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken -- many of whose board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously -- faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush's first term.

Now Quasha is back -- on the other side of the aisle. Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton's circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly hiring Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe's chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton's campaign, Quasha set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.

http://alternet.org/story/65596/

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Why Senator Clinton?
We ask Clinton why she voted for an amendment that could be used as support for attacking Iran

2007-10-22

On September 26th, Senator Clinton voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which designates the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. She was the only Democratic Presidential candidate who voted for the resolution.

"This isn't our present policy of keeping the military option on the table. It is, for all practical purposes, mandating the military option."

-Senator Jim Webb

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[ChristopherMMcKay]

Clinton is so conservative and pro-war. She voted to go to war with Iraq and now has voted to go to war with Iran. I'm voting Kucinich. Clinton may be worse than Bush.

[witzkeyman]

the CIA is truly a terrorist organization.

[AshMan32]

Hillary - "Yea right! Do you think I want to commit political cuicide?"

[MopacMurtaza]

So is America, what should we put sanctions on ourselves? You fucking Hypocritical motherfucker, shut the fuck up!!

[talktal]

hillary will dive this country into deeper debt and war.

[dartagnansblade]

Iran is a terrorist state or terroeist organization..what the problem? What are all you simpletons afraid of? Did you get beat up on the playground or what? Jesus grow a pair and quit whining. What garbage. You really need to get a job and quit making..LOL...vids there director...lol

[amunaor]

Clinton is a real disappointment! She leans which ever way the wind happens to blow on any given day. Here she is, claiming ignorance right of the bat!

As for terrorists - With friends like the Bush-Whackers, with thier WMD, who needs terrorists? With a foreign policy that seeks only to exploit and when the buisness partner abroad turns sour, they bring in the spooks with the WMD and blow their shit up. Oh what shinning stars these twisted souls are!!!

[plasticrev24]

Don't forget Obama missed this vote...

[ChristopherMMcKay]

I meant compared to other democrats (especially Kucinich) her views are conservative; I wasn't saying she is a Republican.

[kailynleto]

clinton is conservative? ha ha ha...that's funny. we really need a strong conservative or libertarian...clinton doesn't come close...

and for the record, I am a republican, but I don't like bush...

[KingMucktoad]

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