So what the hell did Hillary accomplish in Sudan?
Posted on 06/10/2016 10:17:18 PM PDT by Syncro
Rebel forces in South Sudan used child soldiers and the U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton sent arms there despite passing a law that banned providing military assistance to nations that used child soldiers, The Intercept reported Friday.
Waivers were issued by the White House that kept aid flowing there and U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2012 the waivers were in “the national interest of the United States.”
The move was criticized by human rights activists and others, including the author of the 2008 law, which was called the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA), Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
The Republican from Nebraska said the use of child soldiers was an “unthinkable practice.”
“The U.S. must not be complicit in this practice,” he said, as published in The Intercept. “The intent of the law is clear — the waiver authority should be used as a mechanism for reform, not as a way of continuing the status quo.”
U.S. presidential candidate Clinton, then Secretary of State when the waivers were passed, appears she has played a large role in in giving military support to South Sudan despite concerns about their use of child soldiers as combatants.
Daniel Mahanty, who served in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor under Clinton, said decisions about waivers do get approval from the Secretary of State.
“We will have already drafted the letter from the president to Congress that says what waivers he’s going to invoke,” Mahanty told The Intercept. “So it goes up to the secretary [of state], then over to the White House, and from the White House out to the public.”
Jo Becker, the advocacy director of the children’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, also believes Clinton’s State Department played a central role in this issue. “It’s the State Department that gives the recommendations to Obama on who he should waive,” she said to The Intercept.
It's for the Children, huh Hillary?
The State Department, however, refused to comment.
According to The Intercept, the Obama administration believed it needed to issue these waivers in order to allow South Sudan to get on its feet before making any demands of its military.
For more than two decades, a bipartisan coalition in the United States had supported rebels in the south of Sudan and as South Sudan formed, the U.S. poured billions of dollars in military and security assistance.
It also supported on South Sudan’s security forces, especially the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), whose members were implicated in a number of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and torture.
“The U.S. seems to make the same kind of mistake again and again,” said Nate Haken of the Fund for Peace. “We catalyze major change without understanding, or at least grappling with, the long-term implications — whether it’s Iraq or Libya or whether it’s South Sudan. We definitely need to do better.”
Crooked Hillary.
Democrat strongholds here in the US use child soldiers in their drug trade.
Couple questions:
1. How much $ did sudan connections donate to th xlintonista foundation?
2. How much $ did sudan connections pay bubba for a speech?
So what the hell did Hillary accomplish in Sudan?
Hillary Clinton: War Criminal
This is an area where children are routinely kidnapped into militias and women are routinely kidnapped as slaves. That’s if they aren’t simply murdered where they stand.
Trying to apply a “child soldier” law in such a place probably makes little sense where you have muslims and the psychotic “Lords” militia kidnapping and slaughtering these very same kids.
To outlaw helping South Sudan because of this just leaves them where they have always been, at the mercy of the muslim jihadists and other miscellaneous Ugandan and Congolese armed gangs. That’s just how it looks to me. You can impose restrictions on these people as a condition of your help, but the realities on the ground are a bit more complicated.
Her mark is everywhere!
She doesn’t give a damn about children. After she secured the nomination, one of the first appearances she made was that a Planned Parenthood event.
She also defended a child molester, and laughed about it. Lucario now it comes to light that she green lights aid for a country that abuses children.
Hillary and the Democrat Party do not care one iota about children born, or Unborn.
There is no justification for Obama and Hillary to arm child soldiers with our tax dollars. Even the excuse that these people can’t help being barbarians kind of falls short, don’t you think?
Probably millions. Everything Hillary did when SOS--ironic anagram-was to make money or arm terrorists.
2. How much $ did sudan connections pay bubba for a speech?
Maybe they paid him in children for his buddy's pedophilia island to which Bill the Murdering Rapist traveled many times.
BTW where did that story go?
She never accomplished one positive thing that benefited the USA or the planet when Sec of State
It was Hillary’s Great Adventure, collecting money and destroying the middle east for ValJar and Obama
Yet she is running on her “record” for Prez of the United States.
Hillary Clinton: War Criminal
Many wars for Hillary: War on Women, War on Children, War on America, War FOR Terror, War on Babies, War on Conservatives, War on Righteousness, War on...I could go on and on
She has to reach way up to join the scum at the bottom of the barrel.
She is beneath contempt.
Sudan is one of the most dangerous and hideous areas of the world.
If the children are forced to fight against true oppression they should have weapons IMO.
The law preventing it is a feel good law for dems and liberals to make it look like they are helping children.
She, like Obama, is a disgrace to everything that this country stands for.
Apt verse for Hillary and her ilk.
They have been given "over to a reprobate mind" predestined to damnation.
Godspeed on that please God!
Oh yes, and most of what our tax dollars go for has absolutely NO justification.
In fact, most of what we are taxed for is not justified or constitutional.
It is wasted and/or used for political purposes.
hadn’t thought about the epstein connection.
yeah. I could see bubba swapping out.
Exactly!
B Clinton thinks of everything that can get him off, his mission in life.
And ironically he is the Elder Statesman of the democrat party.
A serial murderer, rapist, pedophile and abuser of women with a wife Mrs Bill Clinton who is and has been his enabler for decades.
I once heard her referred to as Monica Lewinski’s boyfriends wife...
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