Subject: 10.3.14 CTR Weekend Package
From: Burns Strider <[email-masked]>
To: CTRFriendsFamily <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:46:46 -0400
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​Hi all,

You can find Correct The Record's weekend package both attached and below.
Have a good one!

*10.3.14 Weekend Package*

1.       VIDEO: Clinton Speaks to Military Families
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#148d745b7ce7de8a_families>

2.       ICYMI: CTR Response to Michele Bachmann
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#148d745b7ce7de8a_bachmann>

3.       TPs: Hillary Clinton and Syria
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#148d745b7ce7de8a_syria>

4.       11 Things To Know About Hillary
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#148d745b7ce7de8a_eleven>

*VIDEO: Clinton Speaks to Military Families*

<http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-honors-military-families/>

CLICK HERE
<http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-honors-military-families/>: NYT:
Hillary Clinton Honors Military Families

*ICYMI: Politico: CTR Response to Michele Bachmann*

POLITICO:
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/michele-bachmann-hillary-clinton-111535.html#ixzz3F67HgWIl>

“Michele Bachmann lecturing on foreign policy makes Sarah Palin sound like
Dean Acheson,” said Adrienne Elrod, a spokeswoman for the pro-Clinton
group, Correct The Record. “Hillary Clinton is one of the most admired and
respected public figures throughout the world, who continues to prove her
knowledge and intellect on foreign policy matters. There is simply no
comparison.”

*TALKING POINTS: HILLARY CLINTON AND SYRIA*

*BACKGROUND:** In a panel discussion with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta at the Clinton
Global Initiative recently, Hillary Clinton discussed the situation in
Syria and the current steps being taken to address the threat of terrorist
groups in the region. *

*KEY POINTS:*

·         As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was an early advocate of
arming the moderate Syrian opposition. She "believed, at the time, they
would be overwhelmed by Assad’s military force and that they would open up
the door to extremists coming in."

   - Clinton has said there is no way to predict if arming the rebels early
   on would have worked, but she believed it was the best of the options
   available at the time, a point she reiterated this week when she stated, “I
   can’t sit here today and tell you if we had done what I had recommended we
   would be in a very different position.”

·         Recently, Hillary Clinton emphasized the importance of the
current steps being taken to address the threat of ISIL and other terrorist
groups in the region, stating: “It’s something the president is right to
bring the world’s attention to and say, whatever the debates might have
been before, this is a threat to the region and beyond.”

ELEVEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HILLARY

*Secretary Clinton helped restore America’s leadership and standing in the
world during a time of global challenges and changes.* Secretary Clinton
worked tirelessly to revitalize American diplomacy and strengthen alliances
by traveling nearly a million miles for hundreds of meetings with foreign
leaders in 112 countries. As America’s lead diplomat, Secretary Clinton
understood the importance of engaging the public and took diplomacy
directly to people around the world. Just as she was as a senator,
Secretary Clinton was a workhorse, often taking on difficult challenges and
addressing them directly around the world.

*Secretary Clinton built and maintained a coalition to enact the toughest
sanctions in Iran’s history. *Secretary Clinton helped impose the toughest
sanctions in Iran’s history by getting Russia and China on board. Even the Wall
Street Journal
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703957904575252600443502256?KEYWORDS=HILLARY+clinton>
editorial
board noted that, “Clinton surely pulled out every stop to get Russia and
particularly China…on board.” And as Howard Dean recently told CNN
<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/25/cg.02.html>, “Hillary
Clinton cranked up the sanctions for the first time under President Obama
that actually made the Iranians come to the table.”

*Secretary Clinton played an integral role in the New START Treaty with
Russia. *Secretary Clinton played an active role in reaching a missile
reduction agreement with Russia, working to push it through the Senate
<http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/11/clinton.start.treaty/> and securing
more than the necessary two-thirds majority. She entered the treaty into
force <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/02/156037.htm> in Munich with
her Russian counterpart. As a result of the treaty’s passage, there
will be fewer
nuclear missile launchers
<http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/02/156037.htm>. Simply put, the
world is safer.

*Secretary Clinton supported the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to
justice.* As NBC’s Brian Williams reported
<http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/02/11493919-president-obama-bin-laden-raid-is-most-important-single-day-of-my-presidency>
on
his website, “Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommended an air strike
with no forces on the ground.  CIA Director Panetta supported a raid by
Special Forces and so did Secretary of State Clinton.”

*Secretary Clinton helped avert all-out war in Gaza by negotiating a
cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians. *In November 2012, after
eight days of violence, Secretary Clinton negotiated a Gaza cease-fire with
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. In an article titled “Hillary Clinton
scores Gaza cease fire success,” Politico noted
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84145.html> that, “Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton got a Gaza cease-fire right at the moment hope seemed
dead for a rapid end to the violence…”

*Secretary Clinton played a role in bringing one war to an end and planning
for the end of another. *Working closely with Department of Defense
colleagues and as part of the President’s national security team, Secretary
Clinton played a role in the end of war in Iraq and in beginning a
transition in Afghanistan, with all NATO allies having agreed to stand-up a
post withdrawal support plan. As President Obama told 60 Minutes
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-and-clinton-the-60-minutes-interview/3/>,
it was “all a consequence of the great work that Hillary did and her team
did and the State Department did in conjunction with our national security
team.”

*Secretary Clinton was critical in America’s “pivot to Asia” strategy.* As
Martin Indyk of the Brookings Institute wrote in Foreign Policy
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/20/debating_hillary#sthash.tKnaZMYq.dpbs>,
“The ‘pivot’ to East Asia will probably be Obama’s most lasting strategic
achievement… [but] it is Clinton’s too. She laid the groundwork, built the
relationships, and developed the complex architecture of the new strategy —
and she turned up at that pivotal moment in Vietnam in July 2010 to declare
the U.S. commitment to the region.” Secretary Clinton earned praise
<http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/hard-diplomatic-work-pays-off-in-myanmar/1262961>
for
her work in opening up Burma, a place that had not been visited by a
Secretary of State in 50 years.

*Secretary Clinton worked to build the coalition to oust Qadhafi and stop
massacres in Libya. *As the Washington Post reported
<http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-10-30/world/35277483_1_brega-misurata-benghazi>
upon
the end of NATO operations in Libya, “U.S. officials and key allies are
offering a detailed new defense of the approach and Clinton’s pivotal role
– both within a divided Cabinet and a fragile, assembled-on-the-fly
international alliance. What emerges from these accounts is a picture of
Clinton using her mixture of political pragmatism and tenacity to referee
spats among NATO partners, secure crucial backing from Arab countries and
tutor rebels on the fine points of message management.”

*Secretary Clinton engaged in economic statecraft.* Secretary Clinton’s
focus on economic engagement resulted inincreased investment
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-10/how-hillary-clinton-created-a-u-s-business-promotion-machine.html>
through
three new free trade agreements
<http://www.state.gov/e/eb/tpp/bta/fta/c26474.htm> (Colombia
<http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/01/155566.htm>, Panama
<http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/10/175348.htm> and South Korea
<http://translations.state.gov/st/english/texttrans/2011/04/20110417130630tegdirb5.767465e-02.html#axzz2nwkRuZel>)
and 15 Open Skies agreements
<http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/ata/114805.htm> including with Japan,
Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

*Secretary Clinton brought the State Department into the 21st Century.
*Secretary
Clinton helped the State Department adapt to emerging issues such as cyber
security by creating the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism
Communications <http://www.state.gov/r/cscc/> to combat Al-Qaeda’s growing
influence online. She recognized the important role of energy in U.S.
foreign policy and helped create the Bureau of Energy Resources
<http://blogs.state.gov/stories/2011/11/18/us-department-state-establishes-new-bureau-energy-resources>
to
protect our energy infrastructure and influence how nations move to cleaner
fuel.

*Secretary Clinton elevated the cause of women’s rights to new heights*.
Secretary Clinton recognized women’s rights as a major foreign policy
issue. It is, according to Newsweek, the area of “hardships faced by women
and girls across the world–that her impact has been most profound.” Hillary
convinced the White House to allow her to create a new position at the
State Department: Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. Newsweek
continued, “Across the world, in diverse and deeply reactionary cultures,
Clinton and [Ambassador-at-Large] Verveer have spoken and fought to
liberalize attitudes on women’s role in the economy, girls’ schooling,
women’s health, domestic violence, issues arising from war and conflict,
and myriad other concerns.”