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marmar

(79,115 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 08:23 PM Jan 2012

Shoot.....Maim.....Kill !!!! ......... Neocon war addict John Bolton needs his war fix.




from the USA Today:


By John Bolton


America is in a race to stop Iran from making the world's most dangerous weapons, and we are losing.

Sadly, we have been behind the curve for years, and recent Obama administration claims about slowing Tehran down are little more than re-election propaganda. President Obama is still naively fixed on diplomacy with Iran, though it is laughable to believe our smooth-talking negotiators will chitchat Iran out of its nuclear ambitions. If Iran returns to talks, what is the compromise between our insistence that Iran cannot have nukes and Iran's determination to get them? That Iran gets to keep a small nuclear weapons program?

Sanctions have long been touted as the answer, but they are not. Iran has enough friends (Russia and China, plus Cuba, Venezuela and others on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent Latin jaunt) to withstand them. North Korea, the world's most heavily sanctioned country, with a population perennially near starvation, has exploded two nuclear devices. Nonetheless, both the Obama and Bush administrations sought negotiations with Pyongyang's criminal regime, an unfortunate tutorial for Tehran's mullahs.

Nor have assassinations, sabotage or the Stuxnet computer virus materially damaged Iran's program. While politicians claim these measures show they are "doing something" about Iran, objectively they simply enable its steady, clandestine progress. They are diversions masquerading as solutions. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-01-17/John-Bolton-Iran-military-action/52623920/1



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Shoot.....Maim.....Kill !!!! ......... Neocon war addict John Bolton needs his war fix. (Original Post) marmar Jan 2012 OP
john bolton is an embarrassment barbtries Jan 2012 #1
Well said. n/t FSogol Jan 2012 #3
Solution? Issue Bolton an M-1 and drop him in Pakistan. FSogol Jan 2012 #2
Agreed, if he's so serious and sure..........beat me to it. n/t Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #18
As a veteran, I'd welcome him to the club. denbot Jan 2012 #4
We should send him hunting with dick cheney liberal N proud Jan 2012 #5
Mame? Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #6
Corrected. marmar Jan 2012 #7
They always put the blame on Mame... pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #9
hawk. warmonger. foreign policy bully. prick. spanone Jan 2012 #8
Emphasis on Prick madokie Jan 2012 #10
Bloodthirsty ghoul and war criminal. sabrina 1 Jan 2012 #11
Enlist, chickenhawk John! muntrv Jan 2012 #12
"The only other option is to take pre-emptive military action" Faygo Kid Jan 2012 #13
who died and made this POS important?? no one.... he is an embarrassment...86 him asap opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #14
If Bolton lost his top 10 inches, 'it wouldn't make a bit of difference' nt pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #15
not even a iota of diff...:o) opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #16
Bush zombies just keep reappearing riverwalker Jan 2012 #17

barbtries

(31,085 posts)
1. john bolton is an embarrassment
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 08:29 PM
Jan 2012

to this country. it's so wrong that he gets published as if his opinion has any worth whatsoever. fuck him.

denbot

(9,947 posts)
4. As a veteran, I'd welcome him to the club.
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 08:33 PM
Jan 2012

He should grab a rifle and some ammo and let his actions speak for himself, instead of pushing for others to do what he lacks the courage to do.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
11. Bloodthirsty ghoul and war criminal.
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 09:00 PM
Jan 2012

Send him there if he wants a war. I'm all for warmongers paying for their wars in taxes while giving anti-war people tax breaks. I'm also for warmongers signing up and taking themselves to the battlefield.

If you want a war you pay for it and you fight it.

Insane people are running the world.

Faygo Kid

(21,489 posts)
13. "The only other option is to take pre-emptive military action"
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 09:18 PM
Jan 2012

Of course. He is a bloodthirsty neocon killer.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
17. Bush zombies just keep reappearing
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 09:51 PM
Jan 2012

"Bolton supported the Vietnam War and enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

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