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Is New York Times Having Second Thoughts on Hillary Endorsement?
1 March 2016
EIRNS —The New York Times, which endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in January, prior to the New Hampshire primaries, published a devastating documentary account of Clinton’s central role in the decision to overthrow Libyan head of state Qaddafi, to have him assassinated, and the horror that followed. The lengthy account, based on interviews with more than 50 current and former Obama Administration officials and other knowledgeable figures, made clear that Hillary Clinton was the ``tilt’’ factor in the decision to bomb Qaddafi and ultimately unleash chaos across Africa. Former Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who quit the Administration and broke with Clinton over the Libya regime-change operation, made clear that it was her personal intervention that tilted the decision in favour of war. In one devastating segment on the failure of the pre-war diplomacy, The New York Times recounted that at the very outset of the bombing campaign, retired U.S. Rear Adm. Charles Kubic received a communiqué from a Qaddafi representative, proposing a 72-hour ceasefire, during which Qaddafi was prepared to negotiate his own departure from power and an end to the fighting towards Benghazi. It turned out that Qaddafi had earlier reached out to the Obama Administration through Gen. Wesley Clark and even Tony Blair, attempting to reach Secretary of State Clinton to halt the war. All the efforts were rejected, Qaddafi was killed, and Libya descended into pervasive chaos, with a flood of weapons hitting the black markets on a scale not seen since Vietnam. Hillary Clinton State Department aides, including Ann-Marie Slaughter, acknowledged that Clinton will always err in favour of action versus inaction. Libya was the clearest case of this flight-forward profile, where the war was launched on a fraudulent claim that it was a humanitarian intervention to prevent a bloodbath in Benghazi, rather than the actual intent: bloody regime-change and an assassination of a head of state, who had dismantled his WMD arsenals and was a leading ally in the fight against al-Qaeda and other jihadist forces—who today rule over much of the country. Lyndon LaRouche commented during today’s LaRouche PAC Policy Committee dialogue that The New York Times account provided a chilling and comprehensive picture of Hillary Clinton’s role, not before assembled in one location. He called it ``ugly, evil, astonishing. Hillary Clinton represents the reality of the Obama killer principle.’’ He added that The New York Times profile takes us to the heart of the matter: ``Who is the real Hillary? What are we being sold?’’ In effect, Secretary Clinton was the author of the Obama killer program. It goes all the way back to the 2008 Presidential primaries. After Obama won the election, ``she came in and did the dirty work for Obama.’’ |
