Mrs Clinton’s wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign contributions shows senior defence industry employees are pouring money into her war chest in the belief that their generosity will be repaid many times over with future defence contracts.
Employees of the top five US arms manufacturers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon - gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to the Republicans. “The contributions clearly suggest the arms industry has reached the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed,” said Thomas Edsall, an academic at Columbia University in New York.
Republican administrations are by tradition much stronger supporters of US armaments programmes and Pentagon spending plans than Democratic governments. Relations between the arms industry and Bill Clinton soured when he slimmed down the military after the end of the Cold War. His wife, however, has been careful not to make the same mistake.
After her election to the Senate, she became the first New York senator on the armed services committee, where she revealed her hawkish tendencies by supporting the invasion of Iraq. Although she now favours a withdrawal of US troops, her position on Iran is among the most warlike of all the candidates - Democrat or Republican.
These guys get rich, when people get dead.
So how has Hillary convinced them to support her campaign? And does her vote to support calling Iran’s 125,000-member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization have anything to do with it? Is she somehow signaling them her desire to continue the insane Bush Middle east policies?
These are question that we must have clarified before ANYBODY throws their support to Hillary Clinton.
I just don't believe that Democrats understand what getting Hillary in the White House will mean to this country. Don't allow yourself to be seduced by the charms of Bill Clinton, he is not the one running.
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