"5,000 troops to Colombia"? Nation responds to Bolton's note

[DonViejo]

Source: CBS News/The AP



UPDATED ON: JANUARY 29, 2019 / 8:28 AM / CBS/AP

Colombia's foreign minister says his government doesn't know why U.S. national security adviser John Bolton had "5,000 troops to Colombia" written on a notepad he held during a news conference announcing new Venezuela sanctions.

In a brief address Monday evening, Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes said Colombia does not know the "importance and reason" for Bolton's note. He added that Colombia will continue "acting politically and diplomatically" so that democratic order is restored in Venezuela and new elections are held.

Colombia shares a 1,370-mile border with Venezuela and has joined President Donald Trump in backing Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself interim president in the opposition's confrontation with President Nicolas Maduro. Bolton's note appeared to refer to the situation in Venezuela and were spotted while he and other officials were announcing the imposition of sanctions against a state-owned Venezuelan oil company.

When asked to explain the words in Bolton's notepad, the White House said in an email that "as the President has said, all options are on the table."

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[PeeJ52]

1. It was a sucker play people... Bolton has not authority to send 5000 troops to Columbia...

The notepad was empty when he first went up to the podium. He wrote that for the press' benefit. Geesh... How stupid are we???

[atreides1]

2. Bolton has Trump's ear!!!

All he has to do is convince Trump to send troops! We all know Trump thinks of military personnel as his own private collection of "Green Army Men", like the ones he played with, as he avoided being drafted!!!

Trump just picked a war criminal, Eliot Abrams, to lead this Venezuela adventure! You remember Abrams, lied to Congress and tried to cover the massacre of 1,000 Honduran civilians, by US trained Honduran security forces!

[DFW]

3. Maybe it was a typo

Maybe Trump feared an insurrection on the part of desperate government employees, and wanted the troops deployed to protect him in the District of Columbia.

[csziggy]

7. Or it actually was meant to be Colombo

Though why we'd sent troops to Sri Lanka is beyond me.

PS - maybe for a vacation?

[hunter]

4. It's a porn fantasy, and possible sub-plot for a "semi-biographical" movie.

Bolton does them all in one long coke fueled binge.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Bolton stirring up the shit then.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Trial balloon?

If the reaction is positive, it's John Bolton's brilliant idea.

If negative, then hey, don't read someone's private notes, you have no context.