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Siwsan

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2. Bolton has been a self-serving ass-hat from day one
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 08:24 AM
Jun 2020

I have no doubt he held on to so much of what's in his book for profit, the security of the nation be damned.I did a little searching on him, via Wiki and here are a few snips about Bolton that, for me, sums him up:

Bolton was a supporter of the Vietnam War but avoided combat through a student deferment followed by enlistment in the Maryland Air National Guard. His draft number was 185. The highest number called to military service was 195.

"I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.” ".......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. ….."[d]ying for your country was one thing, but dying to gain territory that antiwar forces in Congress would simply return to the enemy seemed ludicrous to me. Looking back, I am not terribly proud of this calculation…” John Bolton - as written, by him, in the Yale 25th reunion book, and as reported on his Wiki page.

Guess what, John - you aren't a war hawk - you are a HYPOCRITICAL, COWARDLY CHICKEN HAWK.

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that's my sentiment as well RT Atlanta Jun 2020 #1
Bolton has been a self-serving ass-hat from day one Siwsan Jun 2020 #2
"self-serving ass-hat from day one" mitch96 Jun 2020 #6
He has left no doubt about his own monumental betrayal of his country. Botany Jun 2020 #3
See below: Mme. Defarge Jun 2020 #4
Blood on his hands central scrutinizer Jun 2020 #5
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