Late Edition: John Bolton, America's Least Diplomatic Diplomat
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 11, 2007 2:01pm
Exhibit #12,984 of why our reputation on the world's stage has plummeted during the seven years of the Bush administration: John Bolton. You have to love the logic of the neo-con crowd. Appoint a blustery, combative idealogue with no concept of empathy or compromise, much less diplomacy, to represent the US around the world. Like Juan Williams pointed out, Bolton's whole modus operandi is to get angry that every country doesn't defer to American interests.
I'd say that level of arrogant bullying and delusions of grandeur would be indicative of overcompensation for more inadequate parts of his person, but only Pammy Atlas would know for sure (sorry, I threw up in my mouth a little at the thought).
Here is America's Diplomatic Face trying to put a good spin on the fact that he and his buddies were so wrapped up in their insane domino theory for domination in the Middle East that we dropped the ball in Pakistan:
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And here is Boltin' Bolton trashing the UN, the IAEA and Chief Inspector Mohammed alBaradei for daring to deny the official Bush Administration's stance on Iran's nuclear program.
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Transcripts below the fold
BLITZER: Not one to mince any words, my next guest says the Bush administration foreign policy is, quote, "something like in free fall right now." That's just one of the rather blunt opinions the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has in his new book. It's entitled, "Surrender is not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad."
Mr. Ambassador, welcome back to "Late Edition."
BOLTON: Glad to be here.
BLITZER: Let's talk a little bit about Pakistan first and foremost. It's obviously an awful situation right now. There's a crisis there. It could get a lot, lot worse, as you well know. What should the Bush administration be doing right now?
BOLTON: I think we have to focus on our principle strategic equity, and that's safeguarding Pakistan's nuclear arsenal from falling into the wrong hands. I think that -- I'm not here to defend Musharraf or his actions, but I think that in this very volatile situation, the last thing we need is instability in the government. And I think that's what we ought to focus on. I think the administration, I'm afraid to say, has given mixed signals in the past few days. I think today it's come out very clearly about what needs to be done to keep Musharraf, keep his level of support up. But make no mistake, this is a very dangerous situation.
BLITZER: So what I hear you saying is the U.S. has to support Musharraf because he controls the military, and the military has to keep the nuclear arsenal secure? BOLTON: We really have to look at the alternatives, and I frankly don't see the alternatives. They Pakistanis don't call the military the seal skeleton of their country by accident.
The record of civilian governments has not been great since partition and independence, and especially now when radical Islamicists would love nothing better than to get their hands on some of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. This is not the time for democratic theory.
BLITZER: Richard Armitage, who we interviewed in the last hour, thinks that nuclear arsenal's very secure. They've got tight controls. He used to deal with arms control, disarmament at the State Department before he became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Ambassador Holbrooke wasn't so convinced it's all that secure, in part because the U.S. has never been allowed to speak to A.Q. Khan, the nuclear scientist who helped develop Pakistan's nuclear bomb. Where do you stand on this?
BOLTON: I think it's two separate issues. First, in terms of the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, technically I think they are secure. But it's not a technical issue. It's a political issue. If the military comes unstuck, if it divides, then the technical fixes won't protect those weapons.
In terms of A.Q. Khan, I think initially, we were right to allow Musharraf to give us the information without insisting on access because it was important to get as much as we could early. I would have to say within the past few years, we should have gone back and asked for more access.
But I want to emphasize Musharraf's difficulty in Pakistan. Even the military is filled with Islamicist fundamentalists that he's tried to keep in lower positions, but they're pervasive. And he doesn't have the flexibility of a real military dictator.
BLITZER: So, even in exchange for $10 billion in military assistance since 9/11, the U.S. never got direct access to A.Q. Khan. And you say the U.S. should have?
BOLTON: I think in more recent years. This is a very complex situation, and that's why even though martial law and the suspension of the constitution don't have much to recommend themselves, I'd have to put securing those nuclear weapons at the top of our agenda. BLITZER: Here's what Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, told our own Zain Verjee in an interview yesterday. Listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BENAZIR BHUTTO, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN: Pakistan is imploding from within, and yet there is very little appreciation of the deepening crisis here.
BHUTTO: I receive reports in the frontier about how the Taliban are advancing, advancing into our cities and the administration simply can't fight.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: Now, as you know, she's a secularist, she supports democracy, she's a good friend of the United States. Is she right?
BOLTON: Well, I think the question is, who is better going to lead the military in that fight, Benazir Bhutto or Musharraf?
BLITZER: What's the answer?
BOLTON: I think it's Musharraf right now. I don't think his record has been perfect, but I think in a time of crisis like this, you need to keep your eye on the ball and that's principally the nuclear weapons.
BLITZER: Let's talk about a country that supposedly is trying to get nuclear weapons. That would be Iran. The secretary of state spoke out about this the other day. Listen to Condoleezza Rice.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: The United States and our partners are fully committed to a diplomatic solution with Iran. If the Iranian government fulfills its international obligation to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, I will join my British, French, Russian, Chinese and German colleagues and I will meet with my Iranian counterpart anytime, anywhere.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: All right. So she says the U.S. will start these high- level talks but the Iranians have to suspend their nuclear enrichment program. What do you think?
BOLTON: I don't think the Iranians have the slightest intention of suspending their uranium enrichment program. We've been at this diplomatically through the Europeans for over four, going on five years. You'd have to have a near religious belief in the strength of Security Council resolutions to think the Iranians are suddenly going to start paying attention to them.
BLITZER: Because a lot of experts, including the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, say there's no military solution to this, there's only a diplomatic solution. He was here on "Late Edition" two weeks ago and he told me this. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MOHAMED ELBARADEI, IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL: I'm very much concerned about confrontation -- building confrontation, Wolf, because that would lead absolutely to a disaster. I see no military solution. The only durable solution is through negotiation and an inspection.
(END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: Now, he says there can be a solution through negotiation and inspection. But what you're saying is the Iranians, under this current regime, have no intention of giving up their nuclear program under any circumstances.
BOLTON: Mohamed ElBaradei is an apologist for Iran. He has taken positions in flat violation of three Security Council resolutions, and he needs to learn that he works for the member governments of his agency, not the other way around.
BLITZER: But he got a second term. They voted. Despite the Bush administration's opposition, he was reelected to a second term.
BOLTON: He got a third term, actually, which is even worse.
BLITZER: Third, and so there -- he does have the confidence of some people.
BOLTON: I don't think we were effective in our campaign to oppose him. I don't think that he did nearly what we should have done, and I think we are paying the price now and will pay it into the future.
BLITZER: But, you know, in fairness to Mohamed ElBaradei, before the war in Iraq, when Condoleezza Rice and the president were speaking about mushroom clouds of Saddam Hussein and a revived nuclear weapons program that he may be undertaking, he was saying there was absolutely no such evidence. He was poo-pooing it, saying the Bush administration was overly alarming and there was no nuclear weapons program that Hussein had revived. He was right on that one.
BOLTON: Even a stopclock is right twice a day. Look, Saddam Hussein kept together over 1,000 nuclear scientists and technicians that he called his nuclear mujahadeen. There may not have been centrifuge cascades spinning, but Saddam had the intellectual capability to put that program right back together.
BLITZER: But that was an important issue, trying to justify the war, the mushroom clouds, the fear, the smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud, and that's not just a little issue that he was right on. He was right on a major, major justification for going to war.
BOLTON: I'm not aware there was any disagreement with the Bush administration that Saddam did not have the physical capacity in his nuclear program, but he did have the intention and he had the record of having pursued them in the past.
BLITZER: He also said this about the early September Israeli airstrike on some sort of suspicious facility in Syria that reports have suggested was some sort of North Korean nuclear reactor facility that they were building to develop centrifuges in Syria. Listen to what ElBaradei said to me on this program two weeks ago.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ELBARADEI: To bomb first and then ask questions later, I think undermines the system it and doesn't lead to any solution to any suspicion, because we are the eyes and ears of the international community. It's only the agencies and the inspectors who can go and verify the information.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: He said if the Israelis were concerned, they should have gone to the IAEA and made their case and then the inspectors, presumably, could have gone in since Syria is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
BOLTON: If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. The notion that Israel or the United States would put their national security in the IAEA's hands is just delusional. And let me make one important point.
Eyes and ears of the international community? Look, the IAEA functionally gets most of its sensitive information from foreign intelligence services including our own, and that's why it's more properly called the U.N.'s nuclear watchpuppy.
BLITZER: So you don't believe, obviously, this guy, anything he's basically saying?
BOLTON: I think he's actually undermining the credibility of the IAEA by his overly politicized role in the Iran crisis.
BLITZER: When you say "surrender is not a option" in your new book, what do you mean?
BOLTON: Well, actually I've said that title to a lot of my friends, former political appointees at the State Department, and they laugh at me and they say, "What do you mean? Surrender is an option. We do it all the time."
My point is that America's diplomats should be advocates for America. They should be instilled with a culture of advocacy, not with a culture of retreat.
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how many more wingnut welfare segments is this Wilford Brimley mustached bedwetter going to get?
"overcompensation for more inadequate parts of his person"
is this really necessary?
I would trust the word of Elbaradei over this ass-wipe any day. Before the US invaded Iraq, the IAEA said they found no WMD in Iraq. He was right and I would bet he's right now. Bolton is just one more ass kisser for the neocon crowd.
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How American's put up with these fascist war criminals (who have NEVER been right about anything) and who are salivating about more death and destruction while wiping the flag and constitution against their arses is astonishing.
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He does have a stupid moustache. I can't look past that.
SMASH HIM!
Justin @ 2:
I'm sure she meant "brain".
Justin @ 2:
Frankly, yes.
I am sick and tired of giving these people who have been wrong EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. WAY. uninterrupted time on national platforms to give us more lies, more propaganda and more embarrassment in the world community.
Since the MSM won't confront them, I feel the only choice I have is to mock them for being the ridiculous figures that they are. Emasculating? Absolutely. But Bolton deserves it. Look at where he and his PNAC buddies have put us.
Since we know that the media cribs their stories from us, perhaps some of it will seep into their brain pans and they won't take Bolton so seriously next time.
Plus, I have to admit...I get a tickle of amusement at Pammy Atlas google alerting her name and finding that sentence there.
Justin @ 2:
Sadly, yes. If this isn't the scariest group of thumbdicks ever assembled, I'll bet you 20$ that Condi Rice owns a home with another woman. But she's not gay.
Diane Rehm was down right catty with Bolton this morning.
"...I’d say that level of arrogant bullying and delusions of grandeur would be indicative of overcompensation for more inadequate parts of his person..."
You're talking about his 'tache, right Nicole? Or maybe the upper lip he covers with it...
:lol:
How is John "Got Milk" Bolton considered a credible source?
The man has no diplomacy. He's never learned how to watch, how to see, or how to think. Yet another deluded reactionary in a long line of deluded reactionaries.
Blitzer: You and your neo-con friends have spread dis-information and been consistently wrong in regards to the middle east, why should the American people or the rest of the world believe a word you say?
Never trust people that don't drink or who have a mustache.
A guy like Bolton makes good sense when an administration views diplomacy as a perfunctory step towards military action.
Angry old white dude spouts off. Yawn.
Nicole Belle @ 8:
Is she for real? What a nutcase.
Perhaps Bolton gives good moustache rides--or so she imagines.
He needs to be ventilated by Mr Green Jeans pitchfork.
Palooka @ 10:
Did you hear the part when he said "I am not a neocon" ? Shameless.
These are the end results of Bolton like policies, what a freedom fighter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to6uNUTf8g4
What were bolton's qualifications to be a diplomat anywho?
I've got a mustache too, goes all the way to my jawline.
Ambassador Yosemite Sam
hadenuf @ 17:
Pam from Atlas Shrugged. LOVES her some John Bolton. I won't link her though. If it's really necessary, you can google the site name. I personally find her more effective than ipecac syrup for losing my lunch. Maybe we can design a diet around her--Pammy Atlas Bullimia for instant weight loss.
Who cares about John Bolton? He is not our diplomatic face. He is a former U.N. representative who served a recess appointment of a little over a year, after the Congress (controlled by Republicans at the time) refused to confirm him. The guy was marginal at best, and now he's irrelevant. There are enough cable channels so that any wingnut can get some air time, but so what? Why bother giving him the level of attention and profile raising that you are giving him?
He's just incredibly infuriating. The facts are the IAEA got it right all the time and he got it right not once. And yet all he does is criticize El Baradei. El Baradei proved he could stand up to political pressure to say what's right and Bolton makes it sound like he's just a politcal animal kowtowing to some unnamed vested interest. Bolton is just a fool and has no place in any political dialog.
How soon we forget....PNAC.
Have a nice day.
Give Bolton some credit for empathy: "... he doesn't have the flexibility of a real military dictator."
Thatboyisinseriousneedofanasswhuppin!
anon @ 27:
"The flexibility of a real military dictator" to Bolton translates as "He should kill Bhutto but he's too much of a pussy."
Think about it. Bolton's indirectly advocating "dispatching" any democratic candidate who threatens the stability of a (un-real) dictatorship.
Bolton is such a chicken-hawk, by his own admission he supported the Vietnam War but he did not want to enlist because he felt the cause was lost.
I hope people realize that there is not just 2 choices in Pakistan. As presented by the MSM it's a simple choice between "Islamic Terrorists" or Musharraf. The people who are demonstrating in the streets, the Chief Justice and others of the Judiciary are far from Islamic "Terrorists".
It also should be noted that the Israeli Govt. is trying to get Chief Inspector Mohammed alBaradei replaced.
Peace
I thought the military dictatorship in Pakistan was Bush's favorite example of democracy in the whole world?
Why isn't Bolton bragging about Bush's buddy in Pakistan? Will Bush have to spank Bolton later?
Well, there goes all my special childhood memories of Captain Kangaroo...
Bizarre, evil fucker...
Fascism is goose-stepping into the US in the name of 'Anti-terrorism', with a whole flock of Goebbles-like Bolton-zionistas promoting the fear of Islamo-fascism, in order to protect Israel and BigOil.
One can hope that this latest experiment in fascism ends like the last one, with the fat, dumpy member of the axis hanging by his heels from a lamppost, and the slighter, rabid one committing suicide in a bunker.
It wouldn't hurt to join the CrazyChristianFundamentalistEvangelicalRapture freaks in prayer that 'The Prophecy' comes true, and they are all wafted to 'Heaven'.
That would solve a lot of problems, and possibly restore reason and rationality to Earth.
He is the Walrus coo coo ca choo
I guess "surrender is not an option" is just another way of saying "Never admit you're wrong." Have I got that right?
Thought so.
STOP George @ 4:
Much like those who add linefeeds to their comments to make them stand out more, the "fascist war criminals" are motivated by self-interest and a clarity of purpose that while misguided is foisted upon a world with no recourse. Between comment-space colonialism and outright real-world imperialism, perhaps you can offer some insight to those of us not in favor of either.
Here's a video which shows how well Bolton's Global outreach is working...
http://thetotalperspectivevortex.blogspot.com/2007/11/sammie-goes-to-bol...
I got this as e-mail from my brother-in-law but I didn't know he was this sick!
John Bolton should be thankful that "intellectual dishonesty" is not a crime.
EH @ 37:
As to my "comment-space colonialism" (LOL!) -- my advice is to "ignore" it.
As to the fascists that are taking over your country -- my advice is to get your country back in a more forceful way than is presently taking place.
As to more insight on how that is done -- keep an eye out for my marks of comment-space colonialism. Sometimes I give advice -- sometimes I don't.
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Right. So we have turmoil in a country with tested, deployable nukes, and Johnny-Boy is busy trying to sell 'Iran might have a weapons program!"
When al-Qaeda gets a hold of those nukes, Johnny, any fitting memorial at ground zero will need to include your sorry ass staked to the ground.
HW @ 39:
bolton or your brother?
Bolton’s whole modus operandi is to get angry that every country doesn’t defer to American interests.
Sounds like who?
exit7a @ 35:
Gesundheit.
His ongoing attacks against Elbaradei only prove what a liar he is. And a war criminal. They said the same things about Elbaradei in 2002 and 2003 in their fraudulent runup to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. He should be arrested and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Just like his bosses.
One simple comment: Bolton has never been a diplomat. Not every employee of the State Department is a diplomat. He was never confirmed by Congress as Ambassador to the U.N.; he was really nothing but a seat warmer...
EH @ 37:
STOP George @ 4:
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How American’s put up with these fascist war criminals (who have NEVER been right about anything) and who are salivating about more death and destruction while wiping the flag and constitution against their arses is astonishing.
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Much like those who add linefeeds to their comments to make them stand out more, the “fascist war criminals” are motivated by self-interest and a clarity of purpose that while misguided is foisted upon a world with no recourse. Between comment-space colonialism and outright real-world imperialism, perhaps you can offer some insight to those of us not in favor of either.
As to my “comment-space colonialism” (LOL!) — my advice is to “ignore” it.
As to the fascists that are taking over your country — my advice is to get your country back in a more forceful way than is presently taking place.
As to more insight on how that is done — keep an eye out for my marks of comment-space colonialism. Sometimes I give advice — sometimes I don’t.
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These folks should start with USA History or American History. Oviously none are over 25 years old or lack the intellect to read history. The first intellegable sentence is so skewed with lack of knowledge it is not worth the time to come back for any reasonable dialog! Good Luck! God Bless America
It's positively oxymoronic to use the words John Bolton and diplomat in the same sentence.
bolton is truly scary. i hope he's never in position with any power again.
Quick, hide your Fritos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVkOl-5dZw
blogenfreude @ 19:
So what kind of con is he?
bolton's problem is he has his di@k shoved in his mouth and he is trying to get his
balls in too.
Bolton is a total neanderthal. What's getting really interesting about the administration is that their numbers are in the toilet and yet they continue the power grab and unConstitutional behavior. It'a as if they know they'll be succeeded by another neoCon.
2009 Just can't come soon enough ... Shiva-Jumping H Vishnu, these guys are the worst possible scenario for the World. If he could just have kept his mouth shut and not go on Global TV to Engage and Enrage
As the Presidential election in the US gets closer, try drawing some parallels between what he's saying about Pakistan and what the neo-cons have done to increase executive powers in the US.
Any doubts about what will happen if they stage another 9/11?
RockmanEnough @ 56:
Wouldn't put it past them ... Let's face it, they knew the first one was coming and wanted a reason to make wars. Divide, conquer, spread fear.
Here is America’s Diplomatic
FaceFarce...I believe that's more accurate.Bob in Thailand @ 57:
I'm convinced they not only knew, but........
Yes, all the pieces are falling into place. It's time somebody destroyes their puzzle.
gumby @ 13:
Blitzer is repeating this on his weekday show Drumbeats to War, I mean the Situation Room.
Ok so no WMD were found, no WMD working facilities were found but now having intellectual capacity was enough to go to war???
I suppose that if this proves to be also false, they will says that Saddam dreamed of WMD and this was enough....
Frepi @ 61:
kinda like anyone who can think has to be eliminated? Round up all the intellectuals.
Bob in Thailand @ 55:
I wonder what it would be like if all the Pknickers were bitch-slapped by Vishnu?
Frepi @ 61:
Imagine that kind of arguing in a court of law. People like him should be locked up. He is a hazard to himself, and above all, his surroundings.
What a fucking douche bag.
I'd like to peal that mustache off his face with a pair of pliers and feed it to him.
There.I feel better now.
Bolton's a pig, a Federalist Society pig.
Except the F in Federalist should be replaced with Fascist.
Because the Fascist Federalist Society is at the epicenter of Republican Party Fascism, and Racism, and Totalitarianism...with Ronald Reagan one of the charter founding members.
Just think, in only twenty-five years, the Fascist Federalist Society has almost completely subverted our democratic form of government, undoing what patriotic U.S. citizens had sought to maintain for over two hundred years...the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, habeas corpus, the wall separating church and state, etc. etc.
I served in the U.S. military. I swore an oath to uphold and defend our Constitution and the rule of law from both foreign and domestic enemies. The Fascist Federalist Society definitely represents a domestic enemy, and on this Veterans Day, all veterans should rally in defense of our democracy and hold all the Fascist Republicans in the infamous Federalist Society accountable for their evil misdeeds that have done so much damage to our country, and the future well-being of our nation's children.
Well, theoretically anyone with a functioning brain, more than two semesters of college physics, and the ability to read (which is a given given the two previous requirements) shares the same capability.
So I am sure, the Bolton-led US forces will start their imminent attack on campuses world wide.
I guess now I know who Lennon was referring to when he sang that "I am the walrus, coo kooo kuchuuuu!"
This fucking Bolton is indeed coo koo in the brain.
Bob in Thailand @ 62:
Ignorance is strength you know....
I will be smoking Victory cigarettes and will wash them down with Victory Gin any day now...
China has the intellectual capacity to nuke the United States.
Better invade them too.
Gary @ 69:
Actually, they have the physical capacity to do it, too...
The theory is when you think that you can kick some one's ass.
The practice is when you feel that someone's fists hit your face.
Which proves the old adagio, that In theory... theory and practice are the same. However in practice, they are not. Which is something that these neo-cons never got, thus look at their recent strings of fuck ups... all of these are the academic types (And bad ones at that) too vested in their theories to even bother to serve a single day in uniform.
Never ever take a bullet for someone who is not willing, or too lazy to take one bullet for you.
So US foreign policy is to attack everyone who 'has the knowledge to build a nuclear weapon'?
What a great business opportunity!
Quick, everyone invest in Moats and Drawbridges, since all who have access to the web are going to be attacked by the Bushidiots.
Why is this guy allowed on TV after he screwed up his job? He's a "former" official. He's officially a nothing until some idiot lets him on TV!
" Appoint a blustery, combative idealogue with no concept of empathy or compromise, much less diplomacy, to represent the US around the world."
they forgot to add the fact that this was a recess appointment showing the world that the senate from his own country did not think him to be the man for the job. a fine bush co. f.u. to the world. and sadly oh so typical.
He's obviously retarded and its not nice of Blitzer to have him on the air making a fool out of himself.
as rachel maddow calls him:
JOHN BOLTON!!!!
Liberal AND Proud @ 40:
If it was, you couldn't convict, because there is absolutely nothing intellectual about Bolton's positions.
"This isn't time for democratic theory..."
Oh? What's the diff between now and when we invaded Iraq? Jeez, what a dumbass!
BTW, as someone above noted, this Pakistan situation isn't a binary problem. In fact, a very good argument could be made that we're just delaying the inevitable by trading for "stability" against liberty. If we had spent one tenth of the money on schools and health care for Pakistanis as we spent on military aid and spying we wouldn't have such a devil's choice.
Once again, Bolton is wrong. With Iran that makes three strikes. He's done. Both he and Bill the Bloody Kristol should NEVER see the inside of another studio.
Human @ 31:
It's not the first time that facts and truth have come in the way of Israel's militaristic goals.
Mohammed Al-Baradei has to go. We need someone who plays along and is willing to lie about Iran's nuclear program so that Israel can have its way at the UN and in the Middle East.
Bolton is the Least Diplomatic Diplomat.
Even worse than his former boss Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the 'warrior princess'.
Bolton has serious issues. He is a hateful man that has no heart. How proud he must be that he was allowed to be a UN ambassador even though the Congress... even a Republican Congress... would never confirm him.
Just another worthless NeoCon PNACer.
I could only stand about ten minutes of this guy on Diane Rehm's NPR program this morning. At one point he posed a typical neocon question, in typical neocon fashion...which is to say, like a major #sshole. He said brusquely to Rehm something to the effect of "Name me one effective resolution the UN has passed in the last twenty years..." I've heard this sort of bullsh1t, on-the-spot debate tactic from countless neocon morons over the years: They throw an open-ended topic out there and if you're not a scholar on the subject who can, at a moment's notice, offer a detailed, chronological history of said topic (which they likely know little about), you're obviously ignorant. However, if you can refute all their claims with perfect truthful accuracy, they just shrug and mumble something about how Bill Clinton was terrible. You mean Diane Rehm was not sitting there with a litany of successful UN resolutions dancing on the forefront of her mind, each rebuttal waiting to spring forth and counter a bombastic d1ckhole like Bolton? Man that guy is a jerk.
Never have an asshole like that on live. Fact check every fucking word out of his mouth because he can not be trusted.
Justin @ 2:
You bet it is.
ysbaddaden @ 21:
He was the most arrogant asshole they could find. But, hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day (excuse me while I puke).
Josh @ 30:
Are you serious????? I went to a restaurant once and asked for soup. They said they didn't make any because they thought no one would come. What if we all did that?? Sorry boss, I was gonna do it, but I thought it was pointless. I was going to wear my lapel pin, but figured-- why bother?
'ysbaddaden @ # 21'
"What were Bolton's qualifications...."
Well he seems to have been wandering around Washington for over 25 years working in many positions for , in many cases , only a short time. It looks like he is just a lobbyist . Does anyone know what Bolton actually accomplished when he was the US Ambassador to the UN ? He went there to straighten out those UN characters.I suspect he accomplished absolutely nothing.
Basically a motherfucker asshole
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