Clinton spoke on
the eve the Senate vote that cleared the last obstacle to the nuclear
deal reached by the US and five other powers with Iran, and much of the
speech was devoted to defending the Iran deal, and elaborating on how a
Hillary Clinton administration would enforce its provisions on Tehran.
This
involved repeated assertions that the next administration must be
prepared to use military force against Iran in the event the nuclear
deal fails to achieve its objective of transforming Iran into a puppet
state of Washington.
Clinton rebuffed the denunciations of the
Iran deal by congressional Republican leaders, Republican presidential
candidates, and former officials of the Bush administration like Vice
President Richard Cheney. She criticized Cheney from the right, noting
that Iran’s nuclear program advanced by leaps and bounds during the Bush
administration, which was preoccupied with the war in Iraq.
She
noted that the Obama administration had placed Iran under intense
economic and military pressure to force the Tehran regime to come to the
bargaining table and make substantial concessions on its nuclear
program.
-- Patrick Martin, "Clinton pledges to outdo Obama in militarism" (WSWS).