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Maoist Internationalist Movement
This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Why George Bush prefers Hillary Clinton

*See a previous article on how MIM sees Hillary Clinton
*See an article on the specific links between Hillary Clinton and Cheney
*See our review of Hillary Clinton's book
*See our elections page in general

First it was the conservative intellectual publication "National Review" that said it wanted Hillary Clinton as the most conservative of the Democrats.(1) Then Cheney made an overture to Clinton by saying he wanted to leave the office in the condition he found it.(2) Next Karl Rove helped Hillary Clinton consolidate a lead in the polls by attacking her alone.(3)

These events are all linked together. It has nothing to do with who the Republicans feel they can beat or which Democrat they want if the situation for Republicans is hopeless in 2008.

Backing Hillary Clinton shores up the Bush regime, plain and simple. The reason for this is that Hillary Clinton shares Bush's positions, especially on those questions most often raised for potential impeachment proceedings.

  • On the Iraq War, Clinton voted for it. Obama, Kucinich, Gravel and others would not share that with Bush.
  • On the weapons of mass destruction justification for the Iraq War, it was Rumsfeld who sold biological weapons to Saddam Hussein under President Reagan,(4) but it was Bill Clinton who turned the question into a lying basis for armed strikes on Iraq and subversion of the weapons inspection process.(5) Only Clinton and Bill Richardson would have to defend the stands of the Clinton administration.
  • On the attorney firings question, Hillary Clinton has already stated publicly that she agrees with Bush on the right of the president to fire the attorneys, and she did not specify how many times.(6)

    On all these questions, if Democrats put impeachment on the table, the Bush regime would like to be able to point to Hillary Clinton as the nominee. The Clintons would not be able to say there is much that Bush did that they did not do. In any detailed hearings on the question of impeachment, Bush would be able to refer to the previous decisions of the Clinton administration.

  • On the question of spying on Amerikans, libertarians in the blue states may be under the impression that it was a free country before Bush. In actual fact, as MIM pointed out before, MIM was under 24/7 surveillance under the Clinton administration--lies by the left-wing of white nationalism notwithstanding.

    When it comes to keeping the wraps on anything questionable that the executive branch did, we can be sure that Hillary Clinton sees more eye-to-eye with Bush than any of the other Democratic candidates. This fact is also acting as a drag on progress on issues ranging from Iraq to spying.

    Notes:
    1. Bruce Bartlett, "Get Ready for Hillary Tough choices for the Right." National Review 1May07, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzgxMjNlMWMzNzQ1NjlhMWI5YzNiYTM5YzdmZDdiNTQ=
    2. "Dorf claimed that, using a 1993 ruling that First Lady Hillary Clinton was able to refuse to testify using executive privilege as a reason, Cheney might indeed avoid having to testify in the conflict-of-interest case."
    http://catharinechronicles.com/2007/07/executive-privilege-just-that-privilege.html
    3. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/16/rove-slams-fatally-flawed-clinton/
    4. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
    5. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/books/violence/milanrai.html
    6. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/pirao/security/security090207.html