Sanders: Libya Disaster Evidence Clinton Learned Little from Iraq “Mistake”

July 24, 2024 | admin

(COMMON DREAMS) Jon Queally, December 18, 2015 — Though Hillary Clinton has repeatedly confessed that her vote to approve the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was a “mistake,” rival presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is now highlighting her influential role in the decision to overthrow Libya’s government in 2011 is strong evidence she learned little about the chaos sowed by western military interventions in foreign lands.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian published on Friday, Sanders criticized the former secretary of state for carelessly fomenting the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi while failing to take responsibility for the destruction that ensued.

“Regime change without worrying about what happens the day after you get rid of the dictator does not make a lot of sense,” Sanders told the British newspaper.

“I voted against the war in Iraq … Secretary Clinton voted for that war. She was proud to have been involved in regime change in Libya, with Gaddafi, without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.”

Source: Sanders: Libya Disaster Evidence Clinton Learned Little from Iraq “Mistake” | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

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