Foreign policy is above the level of Democrat vs Republican. Whoever controls foreign policy also controls the highest levels of both parties, and no one can be nominated for president by either party who doesn't support the imperial agenda. If Gore had won the election in 2000, the invasion of Iraq would have happened just the same, except that Democrats would have defended it as a humanitarian intervention and Republicans would attacked it as a waste of tax dollars on a war that didn't serve our strategic interests or defend our freedom. Gore might have been squeamish about it, but they had super-hawk Lieberman in place to fill in for him if he lost his nerve, just as they now have super-hawk Biden in place to remind Obama that he's expendable, and they made McCain, the third member of the Senate's super-hawk triumvirate, the Republican nominee just in case Obama lost. Clinton is a poltical workhorse who will do whatever the imperial collective wants, but the Republicans will nominate someone equally dutiful.