Lincoln Chafee in Vox Media


On Foreign Policy: After Iraq war, we have to repair American credibility

We have to repair American credibility after we told the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which he didn't. Any time someone is running to be our leader, and a world leader, which the American president is, credibility is an issue out there with the world. And we have repair work to be done. I think we need someone that has the best in ethical standards as our next president.
Source: Vox.com e-zine on 2020 presidential hopefuls Oct 16, 2015

On War & Peace: Calls drone strikes "extrajudicial assassinations"

He does think Hillary Clinton is far too hawkish to be president--and indeed, she's more hawkish than our current Democratic president and more hawkish than most of the Democratic Party. She supports the Obama administration's anti-ISIS airstrikes in Iraq and Syria; Chafee opposes them. Her State Department helped develop the legal rationale for the drone war; Chafee calls drone strikes "extrajudicial assassinations."
Source: Vox.com e-zine on 2020 presidential hopefuls Oct 16, 2015

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