Several noted feminists have been using their mailing lists to get out the vote for Hillary Clinton--this is my response to them.

Does it not matter to you that Clinton voted for the war against Iraq, that she did not have the judgment that millions upon millions of people throughout the world had to stand against Bush's obvious deception.

Does it not matter to you that she is now blaming the Iraqis for not stepping up to the plate - meaning not signing over their oil rights to us, does it not matter that in her war-provoking alliance with men in Congress, especially the right wing she voted to have the Iranian Army listed as a terrorist group, a step toward a US attack on Iran? or that she refused to support a ban on cluster bombs after a million of them, made and sent by the US, were dropped by Israel on villages and neighborhoods of Lebanon in 2006?

Does it not matter to you that having turned over 4 million Iraqis - yes mostly women and children into refugees in a war she supported, she stands ready to do that to Iranian women and children?

Does sisterhood have such a thin veneer that all of those Iraqi lives are forgetten in order to have a woman in the White House? Then why not Condoleezza Rice? Is there that much difference between them?

(Courtesy Professor Kathleen Barry Kathy.barry@comcast.net and www.Counterpunch.com,)

(Editor's note: And what of Senator Clinton's recent remarks about obliterating Iran should it launch a nuclear attack on Israel? Of course for her the fact that Iran does not have nuclear weapons is besides the point, which is really to help set the stage for an eventual attack on the Islamic Republic. Not a small thing to threaten with murder 70m people--the warning itself sounds an awful lot like a war crime. Let the reader bear in mind that the Clinton White House years to which Hillary so tenaciously defends in her presidential campaign, also oversaw the killing of 1m Iraqis--not by military means primarily but through starvation and denial of medical supplies. The figure of 1m dead having been the number Pope John Paul II referred to, as have many other sources.)
HAR/HAR