Bolton Calls Invading Somalia With A ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ ‘The Prudential Response’ To Piracy
Bolton Calls Invading Somalia With A ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ ‘The Prudential Response’ To Piracy
Yesterday, the Navy Seals launched a daring and successful effort to free the American cargo ship captain who had been held hostage by Somali pirates for five days, killing three pirates. Throughout last week, some conservatives used the hostage situation to lobby for military action and massive defense spending on irrelevant weapons.
At the forefront of the calls for war was, unsurprisingly, former U.N. Ambassador and perpetual war-monger John Bolton. Even after the successful rescue of the American hostage, Bolton endorsed a ground invasion of Somalia this morning on Fox News:
FOX HOST: Ambassador, if you were serving in this administration, would it be your recommendation that they go in to, militarily with air strikes and/or boots on the ground, into these so-called feral cities, where these pirates are taking hold? Should we go in and take those people out, and take their installations out, now, militarily? Is that what you’re suggesting?
BOLTON: Yes. … Unless we go in and really end this problem once and for all, we will simply see it grow over time.
On Friday, Bolton called for a “coalition of the willing” to attack Somalia, saying the use of force was “the prudential response” to piracy problems. He kept up his calls for war over the weekend. Watch it:
For Bolton, war is always the best option. Last year, he said that attacking Iran “is really the most prudent thing to do.” In 2002, he declared Saddam Hussein to be “a real threat,” making it “a very prudent and logical conclusion that he needs to be replaced.” And less than two weeks before Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, Bolton praised “the prudent course we are on with Iraq.”
Bolton’s insistence that we will see the piracy off the coast of Somalia “grow over time” without U.S. military intervention to “end this problem once and for all” is striking. Back in 1994, Bolton lambasted the Clinton administration for expanding the U.S. mission in Somalia to prevent it from becoming a failed state. Clinton’s efforts “led to the violence and embarrassment that ultimately ensued,” Bolton wrote.
In 2005, Bolton stood by his critique, saying, “I would not have intervened in Somalia.” Today, however, Bolton views such intervention — including the possibility of “boots on the ground” — as “the prudential response.”
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Got a problem somewhere in the world, just blow it up!!!
Fcuk the Republicans
April 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pmSTFU, Chicken Hawk- and shave that stupid- looking moustache.
PS- YOU never served, your KIDS DON’T
April 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pmSTFU, scum.
Bolton is one of the most ignorant human beings on the planet. This guy is a totaly whacked out nut case.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:30 pmI’m waiting for some alt-rock band to take the name John Bolton’s Moustache. Maybe they could do a cover of the Dead Kennedys’ “Kill the Poor.”
April 13th, 2009 at 12:31 pmOMG! Another war? Remember Black Hawk down? We cannot afford another unwinnable war!
April 13th, 2009 at 12:31 pmOf course he does. /eyeroll
April 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pmBy that logic, we should also “invade” Los Angeles to hunt down the Bloods and Crips, and we better move quickly to “invade” the Deep South to take out Klansmen and neo-nazis. This is so stupid. These pirates aren’t professional swashbucklers. They’re also fishermen on the days where they aren’t plundering booty. It’s literally impossible to tell a fisherman from a pirate until they’re on a boat full of guns chasing down an ocean liner. Do we just go through every Somali city shooting anyone who has a boat? Better yet, I guess we should just round them all up and throw them in a prison until they admit to having material evidence about the location of Blackbeard’s gold.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:33 pmAh yes, the filthy war hawk walrus from the stinking bull shit bush sewer raises his warmonging head to try and become relevent again…So very typical of the reich winger’s…..Blessings
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pmBolton says Attack Iraq
Bolton says attack Afghanistan
Bolton says attack Somalia
Attack Iran, oh no, you attacked Iran but we didn’t say ‘Bolton says!’
Americans lose.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pmcavjam Says:
I’m waiting for some alt-rock band to take the name John Bolton’s Moustache. Maybe they could do a cover of the Dead Kennedys’ “Kill the Poor.”
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pm=======================
“Kill the Poor” is good, but “Shrink” is more apropos in the current climate. Either that or “The Potshot Heard Round the World.” Haha John Bolton’s Moustache…how about Boltonstache?
Wingers honest-to-God believe their willingness to to to war with anybody proves they’re tough. It’s a white-guy thing.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pmThe ultimate “white guy” dream, cherished by Bolton and the rest of the neo-con establishment, is to completely depopulate Africa of its indigenous brown and black populaytion and make it safe for White People…
April 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pmHe does speak to one of the far right’s 2 main tenets, that being “violence first.” The other more prominant tenet being “greed at all cost.”
Too bad for Bolton that we no longer have the Cowboy in Chief in the whitehouse or we’d be able to smoke them out of their (pirate) foxholes and bring ‘em to justice dead or alive. You know, like Bush did with Bin Laden.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:37 pmThe only thing that surprises me about this is that he waited until after the weekend.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:37 pm.
Shorter Bolton: NEED MORE WAR!
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April 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pmFeral cities?
Does the Right see non-white people as wild animals?
April 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pmGoodness…is there a shortage of torture/snuff porn out there? Bolton seems like he’s ever eager to send American boys out to die. Wonder what he’s doing when he watches the news?
April 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pmI’m amazed that failed Neocons like wrong wrong wrong Bolton get ANY press.
Even his own FAILed administration wouldn’t back him for the UN job he was so NOT qualified for.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pmWe’ve been in Iraq ending the problem there “once and for all” for over 6 years now. John Bolton is the poster boy for the laughable lunitic sadistic psycho award.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pmHey Bolton, why don’t we invade all the anti-American teabag parties and take the attendees, especially the politicians, as prisoners?
April 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pmHe should be in the front lines, then.
One look at his mustache, and the pirates would surrender. Forget Blackbeard, the scurvy dogs will tremble at the sight of the Terrible Whistestache!
April 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pmWhy doesn’t this guy go to Somalia himself. He is a typical chickenhawk willing to attack without sacrificing himself.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:40 pmBy the way, my new talking point is that the GOP spent the entire weekend attacking the Navy and the US military for not acting like unthinking cowboys.
Why does the GOP hate the US military?
-GSD
April 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pmScraby Crab Says:
Why doesn’t this guy go to Somalia himself. He is a typical chickenhawk willing to attack without sacrificing himself.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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Piss off, Trajan. You’re not fooling anyone.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:42 pmLet’s not forget the talking point during the Clinton Administration was “why are US troops in harms way for a bunch of dirty Somalians”?
“18 dead Americans!”
The GOP-ers watched the video of the US solider getting dragged through street as though it were porn.
-GSD
April 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pmScabby, your game isn’t going to work any better over here than it did on the Israel thread.
You’re not fooling anyone.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:44 pmMaybe we’ll get lucky and Bolton will attend one of Beck’s tea pitty-parties on Wednesday and get picked up by the local police to be held pending his extradition to the Hague!!!
Still waiting for perp-walk day…tick….tick….tick….
April 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pmOf course the answer to a police action is violence, using the American branded military to take over whole countries.
War and civil unrest inflict widespread misery on citizens. War does not solve any underlying conflict, it perpetuates it.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pmchiroptera,
April 13th, 2009 at 12:47 pmYou are obsessed with me aren’t you. You go thera to thear calling me Trajan. Get a life if you don’t like my comments ignore them. you are a paranoid. You probably see a Trajan under your bed also. I bet your some young college kid who smokes alot of weed and has no life.
Haven’t we tried this once before…
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pmWho would give this guy a platform from which to spew such garbage were it not for Roger Ailes and Rush Limbaugh????
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pmDoes Bolton have any kids? Why don’t he get his kids or younger relatives to enlist. This guy is such a coward.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pmIf Bristles McBolton ever opens his foolish yap anywhere but on FoxPropagandaNetwork, perhaps someone could ask him why invading Somalia has suddenly become a good idea. Maybe he and Kristol would like to organize a volunteer militia and clean up Somalia on their own — leading the troops into battle, of course.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pmBolton is your typical neoconservative, Republican Chickenhawk. He loves killing people as long as he’s out of harms way…..
Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard rather than fight in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pmdelafield,
April 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pmJust like a thought, he is a coward who will send others to die for his ideas. Good find!
So, I guess this Somalian piracy thing just started, because I didn’t hear John Bolton calling for an invasion when Bush was in office.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pmshoeless ,
April 13th, 2009 at 12:54 pmAccording to the Neocons all problems began when Obama became President. Everything was a paradise before that.
Look at this idiot Ari Fleisher,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123958260423012269.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
He’s asking for the poor to pay more taxes.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pmYou sound willing- YOU Go!!!
don’t forget to take all your irrelevant, CHICKEN HAWK SCUM Co-horts with you-
April 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pmall of PNAC, and take your kids while you’re at it, so we can perfrom some NEO- CON SCUM, EUGENICS.
Brian Crooks Says:
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cavjam Says:
I’m waiting for some alt-rock band to take the name John Bolton’s Moustache. Maybe they could do a cover of the Dead Kennedys’ “Kill the Poor.”
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“Kill the Poor” is good, but “Shrink” is more apropos in the current climate. Either that or “The Potshot Heard Round the World.” Haha John Bolton’s Moustache…how about Boltonstache?
How about “John’s Bolt-on Mustache”?
This guys supposedly got some experience being a “diplomat”. I say we air-drop him into Somalia for a little diplomacy. Anyone have the list of the other Republicon lawyers who spearheaded the stop of the Florida recount in 2000? I say we drop all of those bastids unarmed and let god sort ‘em out as a big “thank you” for what they did to America.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pmNot. Fooling. Anyone.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pmGranted, Bolton is one of those guys who gets a stiffy just at the thought of war. But what, exactly, does he think an invasion of Somalia would accomplish? It’s not like the pirates are operating at the behest of the Somali government — Somalia doesn’t even HAVE a government that’s remotely functional.
Because piracy is the only way many Somali people can make a living, recruitment is high. Even if we went in and surgically took out whatever pirate bases we could, new pirates and new bases would spring up overnight.
The only way to end Somali piracy militarily would be to kill every last Somali citizen and leave the country a wasteland. Besides being morally wrong (duh), there’s no way to do this without exhausting all our resources and p!ssing off the rest of the world (haven’t we already done enough of that?).
Is this what Bolton wants? He’s out of his freaking mind.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:01 pmHand Bolton an M16, a parachute, and drop him in Mogadishu at the corner of BurningTire Lane and FightYourOwnDamnWar Ave.
Let him show us how it’s done….
April 13th, 2009 at 1:01 pmThough Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard rather than fight 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.”[9] 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.”
Bolton is a coward who covered his tracks after the fact and blamed others for his lack of commitment and bravery related to a cause he supposedly “supported.” Spineless shitbag.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:02 pmThis Bolton character really has a bone to pick with these countries, huh?
I really don’t understand why all of these irrelevant voices continue to be heard. Their time is done. Move on.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pmThe only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pmOf course that’s what he wants. Don’t you know that the Somalis are brown people?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:05 pmCan’t get enough of that death and destruction, canya chickenshithawk Bolt-on?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pmTo bad reality’s writing checks his mouth can’t cash.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pmRealityCheck,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:08 pmWhy don’t you enlist and join the army.
RealityCheck Says:
The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
***
the man’s name is huck.
huck huckabee.
:)
rsvp – she can’t make the tea bag thing wednesday.
legal stuff.
:(
April 13th, 2009 at 1:08 pm…
April 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pmScraby Crab Says:
RealityCheck,
Why don’t you enlist and join the army.
***
traj,
time to get back on your meds.
:)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pmLooks like RealityCheck needs a reality check very badly.
Fcuk the Republicans
April 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pmI think Bolton gave it away with his Freudian slip. Prudential indeed! Insurance rates for shipping companies are going through the roof because of these “pirates”. We’d better get the US military in there to pave the way for our business interests. That’s what the US military is for… right Mr. Bolton?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pmThe best thing to go with Bolton’s mustache is a Pirate hat.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pmBuckie, that’s what his screen name means — he’s begging for a reality check.
We keep trying to provide them for him, but he seems unable to recognize them. Almost like he’s blind or something.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pmPay no attention to unreality check, I saw his droppings on another thread and thought it best to move on.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pmRich H Says:
“The best thing to go with Bolton’s mustache is a Pirate hat.”
or a noose…
April 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pmRealityCheck Says:
The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
Flagged for being a coward, a liar, and an all-around jackass.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:14 pmO the irony of someone so divorced from reality using ‘reality’ in their name.
What a cowardly little right wing pansy
April 13th, 2009 at 1:15 pm46. RealityCheck Says: The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
Lower bodycount that way.
You’re just upset that I prefer my froth from a cappuccino rather than a sociopathic jingoist. (The only thing I attack the neighbor’s dog with are bits of my oatmeal/raisin cookie from Starbuck’s. She loves ‘em.)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:15 pmScraby Crab Says:
chiroptera,
You are obsessed with me aren’t you. You go thera to thear calling me Trajan. Get a life if you don’t like my comments ignore them. you are a paranoid. You probably see a Trajan under your bed also. I bet your some young college kid who smokes alot of weed and has no life.
HI Trajan!!!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:18 pm(It’s your spelling and grammar that reveal you every… single… time!)
RealityFleck Says:
The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
Better than “buggering” them like you do!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:19 pmCan someone (male or female) please give “El Mustachio” some fellatio?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:21 pmBecause anyone with a permanent hard on for war and death is NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY!
And, if I may add, not really sane.
Yeah, you can’t disguise stupid.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:22 pmjoe cantwell,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pmI am not trajan you and the your pot head loser friend chiroptera both think. I will just ignore you too. I came here for discussion on issues not name calling or accusations. This strikes me as paranoia.
wow, crab, why so……crabby?
maybe you should learn some grammar and spelling to help disguise yourself better
April 13th, 2009 at 1:26 pmorly
April 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
DRxJapanese Beetle,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pmWho is trajan. Can someone tell me who this person is. Seriously I came here to enjoy and discuss not to be accused of being someone. Was it a former poster who betrayed you all? I want to know because I don’t think it is fair I am being accused of being someone I am not. What can I do to prove I am not this person? I am asking for fairness here.
Does Rupert Murdoch pay John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, and William Kristol to appear on his FOX News Network to promote death, war, and destruction against poor people?
FOX News = War! War! War! Kill! Kill! Kill!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pmSomolia doesn’t have a functioning government – it is basically exists in a state of anarchy.
Invade Somolia to take out pirates???? That war would make Iraq look like a cake walk.
How about a coalition to patrol the waters they travel within.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pmWhy are you all ganging up on poor little Scabies Crab?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:29 pm(yawn)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:30 pmTrajan Crab, go back to your remedial classes. You’re not fooling anyone, and you’re just making yourself look more foolish with every post.
RantingTommy ,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:31 pmSo if you don’t spell a word right here, you get called trajan is that it? LOL ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Come on guys people will not spell words occasionally. I bet if I went through every post here I can find people here who did the same. So trajan is like a group insult on Think Progress. Tell me the origins of this name please, I need a laugh.
Look at it this way, folks… as long as Twajie is here pretending to be a brain-damaged progressive, he’s not tending to the magnificent garden of watchdoggery that is ThinkProgressWatch.
So we’re dodgin’ a bullet there.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pmScraby Crab Says:
joe cantwell,
I am not trajan you and the your pot head loser friend chiroptera both think. I will just ignore you too. I came here for discussion on issues not name calling or accusations. This strikes me as paranoia.
***
i’m sorry.
:)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pmDoodlebug Shayne,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pmThey are just messing with me because I didn’t spell a word right. I just realized they are doing this because I’m new. I guess it’s a TP ritual to break some one in. Oh well I will not stress it. It is actually funny.
joe cantwel,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:33 pmIt is ok, I’m viewing this as fun. No offense taken on my part.
Squidbilly,
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Maybe it’s not being done because it makes too much sense.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pmSend that stupid Chicken hawk into Somalia… I’m so sick of the cowards shooting their mouth off.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pmHeynow,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pmHey I’ll buy the ticket for this Bolton to go there. He is such a loser.
lol, it’s a lot more than just ‘not spelling a word right’
your obvious lack of grammar knowledge has a familiar style to it, which gives you away
try redstate or freerepublic, those types are a LOT more gullible and might fall for your BS
April 13th, 2009 at 1:36 pmScraby Crab Says:
joe cantwel,
It is ok, I’m viewing this as fun. No offense taken on my part.
***
good.
*
if you take one of your
“get well” pills we can
be friends again.
:)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:37 pmRantingTommy,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pmAre you an English teacher? Seriously in order to post here you must have perfect spelling and grammar? I bet if I went over all your posts I would find errors. Seriously I don’t get the hostility. Whats did I do that everyone is ganging up on me?
Oh yeah, we have rituals here. That’s the ticket.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pmBolton views such intervention — including the possibility of “boots on the ground” — as “the prudential response.”
Prudential? mebbe prudent was the wordsearch that woulda worked…
Hey, the only pair of boots I want on the ground in Somalia is Bolton’s. I want him to go door to door throughout the city espousing his neocon fantasy.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pmjoe cantwell,
April 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pmI just met you so I don’t know you. That being said I thank you for not joining the attacks on me. Do all newbies here go through that?
Doodlebug_Shayne
Kinda like RitualsRUs>? Eh?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pmScraby Crab, have you met dbadass yet? He’s very helpful to newcomers.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pmlook, scabby cab, I really don’t care whether or not you ever learned to spell or write whole sentences
it’s the STYLE of error that gives you away
also, your belligerent attitude is another obvious indicator
you shouldn’t try fooling people that are so much smarter than you
April 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pmBolton Calls Invading Starbuck’s With A ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ ‘The Prudential Response’ To Decaf.
At the forefront of the calls for a refund was, unsurprisingly, former U.N. Ambassador and perpetual complaint-mongrel John Bolton. Even after the successful delivery of a large and complicated coffee order, Bolton endorsed a ‘coffee-ground’ invasion of Starbuck’s this morning.
On Friday, Bolton whined for a “coalition of the willing” to attack Starbuck’s, saying the use of farce was “the prudential response” to getting decaf when he “clearly ordered a double espresso.” He kept up his calls for refund over the weekend….
For realitycheque. (see where I worked in the dog reference? Huh? I know…it’s a gift….)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pmScraby Crab Says:
joe cantwell,
I just met you so I don’t know you. That being said I thank you for not joining the attacks on me. Do all newbies here go through that?
***
no, just you.
:|
April 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pmDamn…shoulda been, ‘Coalition Of The Spilling’
I need coffee…
April 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pmActually Trajan is now Rodan. He posts with a bucnh of LGF rejects now. It is a funny website that will give us all laughs.
http://www.littlegreenfootballs2.com/
April 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pmSend bolton to lead the charge.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pmot,
weird sarah stuff at alaska st. ag confirmation hearings.
:)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pmTommy, I’d like to suggest that Twajie’s characteristic inability to grasp a concept is also a dead giveaway.
For instance, you explained that his noticeably poor grammar and spelling fit a pattern that is familiar to us, and he pretends that you said that anyone who makes a spelling mistake gets beaten up for it.
Obliviousness that, again, fits a pattern.
Too bad Twajie, you have a distinctive troll voice. In most areas where you communicate with language, this would be considered an advantage. But when you’re trying to clumsily pass yourself off as a “newbie” after pulling the same schtick dozens of times, it’s really a definite drawback.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:47 pmThis fool is one wingnut shy of a bolt on .
April 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pmBolton is the poster boy for the Neocons and their dogma…….don`t forget he believes in the “Noble Lie” till the end.I hate WARMONGERING and it`s proponents.How about joining up with Bill Kristol and friends,it`ll be very romantic and don`t forget to take Flush Limpballs,Beck,the Savage Wiener and the Bush crime family along.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pm(doing my Twajie imitation)
i support Hamas and Hezbollah, just like millions of progressives here. your incapible to see cause your blind like many. Death to isreal and all the enemys of the glourious taliban supporters!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pmoh. and i like to vacationing in cabo with my latino ganstas and meeting sammy hagar!
Yes.
This installment of Stupid Answers To Simple Questions brought to you by the number four.
Also…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
April 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pmJohhny Boy, why don’t you lead the charge. If you get killed, we’ll try to honor your bravery. O.K.?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:55 pmRealityCheck Says:
The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
_________
Your point being?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:56 pmBolton shoulkd be incarcerated with the other eejits of his ilk at Bagram Air Base>
April 13th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThe fact that this war-mongering sociopath was CHOSEN as Ambassador to the UN, tells you all you need to know about the former administration and their opinion of the rest of the world. In the movie, “Head of State”, a Bush like incumbent President says “God Bless America, and no place else.” I think this is the mantra for the Neo-Conservatives.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pmThe Coalition of the Willing has had it. I suggest we
instead send the “Coalition of the Bedwetting”, comprised
of :
John Bolton
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Newt Gingrich
Michael Savage
George W Bush
Dick Cheney
etc. etc.
No pirate will ever dare attack the aforementioned
April 13th, 2009 at 2:02 pmfierce warriors! ;-)
Yosemite Sam needs to STFU.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pmFunny how his thought process has changed since he first declared he would not advise intervening in Somalia, which supported the neglect of GWBush, while decrying the involvement by Clinton.
GD hypocrites are worse than armchair quarterbacks.
Has Bolten given a single though towards what would happen if we take over Somalia ?
TP comments yesterday had a lot directed towards asking if there was a connection between the piracy and the social / economic / political condition in Somalia.
For the GOP talking point, what would happen to OUR taxes in the USA if we had to support Somalia ? Even trying to channel Cheney, I can’t figure out anyway that the resources of Somalia would pay off the cost of the invasion. Even if they actually did throw roses under our feet.
And if we are involved in concurrent invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Somalia ?
And pray tell has he considered what happened to the British Empire’s attempt to rule Africa ? The perfect setup for another Idi Amin ?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pmCost to feed the hungry in Somalia for one year — $75 million
Ransoms paid to pirates last year — $150 million
Ending poverty really is that simple.
See more at the Borgen Project
April 13th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI was over at Fauxnews online to see what the rethugs have to say about this issue. And this is posted by one of the bloggers;
“wolvesorsheep Montana [Apr 13, 2009 1:25:41 PM] obama pays tribute to the only group where he is slashing their budget (our Military)? What a hypocrite!!!! Black community organizers are not experienced to govern our America. I included the word black because it is only a matter of time where all the stupid, naive Negros get their reparations for being the descendants of poor slaves. Go back to your native land, Africa. White Americans, wake up and take back our military and our country. FYI: I am a bigot towards those who are ignorant!!!! Fox News, Please publish my freedom of speech, Thanks.”
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They say it is about the disagreement in issues and it is anot about race…what a disgrace.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pmIs there anyone or any place on this planet this guy doesn’t want to bomb? It’s an pathological obsession with him!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:26 pmWhere was Bolton when Clinton tried to clean up Mogadishu? These fools leading our Country just don’t seem to learn.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pmI agree with Bolton 100% a coalition of the willing made up of troops from the Fox Chicken Hawk Brigade, maybe led by head Chicken Hawk, Bolten! Killing many dodo birds with one stone..
April 13th, 2009 at 2:33 pmScraby Crab bebbles:
Come on guys people will not spell words occasionally.
Right, but you won’t make sense regularly.
Welcome back, Twajie. We needed a comic relief…
April 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pmBoth Bolton and our resident troll are idiots. It’s pathological.
They need to be institutionalized, some place where they can not hurt anyone -including their moronic selves.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:41 pmBolton’s view is that the rest of the world is there to be pissed on given our status as the biggest dog on the block. I think he a reptilian creature without an ounce of common sense or conscience. He believes that we can and should stand alone in the world without concern for anyone else including our oldest allies. He has a dark soul and even by Neo-con standards is a particularly vile fellow.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:47 pmWe have always been at war with East Africa.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pmBolton and the Neocon Coalition of the Sniveling lead the brave charge into Somalia…
April 13th, 2009 at 3:01 pmI wonder how much stock Bolton has in defense contractors
April 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pmmemo to bolton:
April 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pmif you and your scumbag ideologues weren’t so hell bent on “getting” clinton and let the man do his job we wouldn’t be in this position. i remember a bunch of repukies rallying around “blackhawk down” in mogadishu
How the hell could war ever be the “most prudent thing to do.”
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April 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pmindi1216,
Reichwingers are amazing in their ability to hold contradictory views, and to completely miss the point.
Take the self-admitted bigot, racist knuckle dragger whose comment you pasted here. He types this:
“[...]it is only a matter of time where all the stupid, naive [African-Americans] get their reparations for being the descendants of poor slaves. Go back to your native land, Africa.”
right before babbling thus
“White Americans, wake up and take back our military and our country.”
Isn’t it amazing he doesn’t believe Caucasians should also go back to their native land; you know, Europe? And that Native Americans should wake up and take back their land?
Stupid, ignorant, naive, bigoted reichwingers…
April 13th, 2009 at 3:23 pmWell, the fact is Obama hasnt cut military spending indi1216…so the FOX poster is just parakeeting misinformation.
In the final year of the Bush administration (and excluding the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) the defense budget was $513 billion. In FY 2010, if Gates and Obama get their way, it will be $534 billion
April 13th, 2009 at 3:24 pm[…]it is only a matter of time where all the stupid, naive [African-Americans] get their reparations for being the descendants of poor slaves. Go back to your native land, Africa.” -FOX Ignoramus
Ignorance runs deep in FOX country. Obamas mother was white, he was born in Hawaii. His Father went to Harvard and became an economist. Obama went to Harvard, that place where Dubya got his MBA.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pmBolton is still itching to invade someone or something. No wonder the BushCo picked him for the UN Ambassador, huh?
April 13th, 2009 at 3:57 pmRyan B:
April 13th, 2009 at 4:11 pmPlease explain why that Borgen dude claims to have lived on a vessels in Dutch Harbor but never claims to have actually worked on said vessel. Also how come you have such a “regular” name. Whatever happened to the funky named Borgens?
Good to see ya, dbadass!
April 13th, 2009 at 4:21 pmand you ralph…
April 13th, 2009 at 4:25 pmSomeone needs to put that rabid moron Bolton out of his misery.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:38 pmRealityCheck Says:
The only thing liberals like to attack is their starbucks coffee and neighbors dog.
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FOAD you ignorant brainwashed piece of garbage. Cowards like you just LOVE to see Americans DIE. Its always party time at RCs house as long as Americans are dying somewhere. While THEY cower under their bed that is. They see Americans dying and it is the only thing that makes their useless little thingys hard so they can masterbate to Red Dawn. What a PUNK you are.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm110. Marie,
Yosemite Sam was more level-headed and had a much calmer disposition.
Cheers ! ;-)
April 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pmWhen is rethugs going to wake up that our big guns does not make us any safer, with 12,000 warheads and all the fancy weapons we have under our belt, 9/11 still happened, even countries like Bolivia and Venezuela are not afraid of us.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pmWe need to limit the terms for senators and representatives to 2 term limits…we have a bunch of people in congress with no new ideas, but over time becomes corrupted by lobbyist. If 12 years is not enough for them to make a change in congress, then they just should not be there any longer. we have senators in congress for more then 30 years, and I am trying to understand what they are doing.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pmGood luck in trying to find other willing nations…
April 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pmSend Captain Crunch to defeat the Pirates , he seems to have free time on his hands .
April 13th, 2009 at 6:59 pmBoltons idea of Prudence is to cauterise the area in a 100 mile radius where the pirates live. What is prudence again?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pmvirtue is the ability to judge between virtuous and vicious actions
April 13th, 2009 at 7:21 pmI mean Prudence is the ability to judge between virtuous and vicious actions.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pmPrudence is the exercise of sound judgment in practical affairs.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pmJohn Bolton NOT = Prudent
John Bolton has a vicious streak according to co-workers. Now that could be untrue but it makes you wonder.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:24 pmJust think another Bush like coalition of the willing. The same kind of willing that went to Iraq? The same kind of willing that dropped out quickly when things got rough? The same kind of willing that was mostly us, or Britain or some Aussies? But mostly us?
I can’t wait to see what kind of willing might be willing. A Bush idea. Just what we need.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:12 pmBolton never met a war he didn’t like. He loves it. If he goes I will volunteer.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pmGosh, why execute a series of well-executed, carefully targeted special forces strikes aimed at crucial weak points in the pirates infrastructure, when we could spend trillions of dollars occupying and trying to pacify an entire rogue nation full of terrorized civilians, senseless brutality and shifting alliances? You’re a brilliant man, John. I believe you’ve earned yourself another night at Plato’s retreat with your eager wife…
April 14th, 2009 at 12:00 amWonder how Johnny found the time to give this interview, what with the entire world community clamoring for his opinion on such matters.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:12 amGreat Idea Josh! I say bring it up at the next teabaggers meeting and organize an invasion of the teabaggers.
The shear volume of teabags being being thrown at those militias should intimidate them into immediate surender.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:26 amQuick.
Can some enterprising young reporters start asking the congressional republicans if they have added funds for the invasion in their budget?
April 14th, 2009 at 12:29 amNot the most brilliant lightbulb in the six-pack.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:32 amBolton is a threat to America and a terrorist and should be shut out at all costs.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:33 pmHe serves no useful purpose but continues to try and tick off the rest of the world.
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