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WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange has spoken out against US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
calling her a “war hawk with bad judgment” who gets an “emotional rush out of
killing people.”
“A vote today for Hillary
Clinton is a vote for endless, stupid war,” Assange wrote via
the @wikileaks Twitter account on Tuesday.
He added that he has “years of
experience in dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read thousands of her
cables. Hillary lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless
wars which spread terrorism.”
Assange also highlighted
Clinton's “poor policy decisions,” which he said have “directly contributed” to
the rise of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
Stating that Clinton went
above the heads of Pentagon generals when it came to Libya, he wrote: “Libya
has been destroyed. It became a haven for ISIS. The Libyan national armory was
looted and hundreds of tons of weapons were transferred to jihadists in Syria.”
He went on to state that
Clinton did not learn from her mistakes, and set out to repeat history in
Syria.
“Having learned nothing from
the Libyan disaster Hillary then set about trying do the same in Syria.
Hillary's war has increased terrorism, killed tens of thousands of innocent
civilians and has set back women's rights in the Middle East by hundreds of
years,” he wrote.
Referring to a CBS interview with
Clinton in 2011, Assange expressed his disgust with her after she became “wild-eyed”
and “publicly took credit for the destruction of the Libyan state,” gloating
that “We came, we saw, he (Muammar Gaddafi) died!”
“In the momentary thrill of
the kill, she had aped, of all people, Julius Caesar,” Assange wrote.
He concluded by saying that
Clinton “shouldn't be let near a gun shop, let alone an army. And she certainly
should not become president of the United States.”
But despite Assange's loathing
for Clinton, she is still in contention to win the Democratic nomination for
the presidential election in November.
Assange wrote the memo from
the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for over three
years after being granted asylum in order to avoid extradition to Sweden, where
he faces sexual assault allegations. From Sweden, the WikiLeaks founder fears
he would be extradited to the US for publishing classified US military and
diplomat documents in 2010 – a move which amounted to the largest information
leak in United States history.
Last week, a United Nations
panel ruled that
Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” in the embassy in London, and called on
the UK and Sweden to end the deprivation of his liberty. Assange called the
ruling “a victory that cannot be denied,” stating that the UK and Sweden had “lost
at the highest level.”
However, both the UK and
Sweden rejected the
UN panel's ruling. A British government spokesman said it “changed nothing,”
while Sweden questioned the UN's legal competence when it comes to “issues
related to fugitives’ self-confinement, such as asylum and extradition.”
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