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5 facts about John Bolton, Trump’s new national security adviser
April 10, 2018 in News by Slad



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Source: USA Today | William cuмmings
President Donald Trump selected John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser. Here is a look at Bolton’s background. USA TODAY
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was added to the administration’s growing list of former White House officials Thursday when President Trump announced he was replacing McMaster with former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
Bolton is a hawk’s hawk who has repeatedly said he believes the United States has the right to take the first shot to handle potential threats.
Several commentators have expressed concern that Bolton’s bellicose approach will only encourage Trump’s more aggressive foreign policy instincts and could help lead the United States into what might be otherwise avoidable military conflicts.
Here are some facts from Bolton’s past that help show why his appointment has made some people nervous.
He thinks pre-emptive war with Iran and North Korea is the right call
In a February op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Bolton made the “legal case for striking North Korea first” to stop what he deems an “imminent threat” from the nation’s nuclear program.
Bolton is strongly opposed to the Iran nuclear deal and said on Fox News that the United States “has no other option” than to bomb the country. According to The American Conservative, “he has been obsessed for many years with going to war against the Islamic Republic.”
He still thinks invading Iraq was the right call
In the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bolton joined other administration officials in expressing confidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraqis would welcome the U.S. overthrow of the regime.
Both those predictions turned out to be incorrect, but unlike his new boss, Bolton still believes the invasion was the right decision.
“I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct,” Bolton told the Washington Examiner in 2015. “I think decisions made after that decision were wrong, although I think the worst decision made after that was the 2011 decision to withdraw U.S. and coalition forces.”

Graceseeker, do you really like John Bolton, a true anti-Christ?

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/04/12/john-bolton-as-the-ugly-american-and-liking-it/

John Bolton as the ugly American, and liking it
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Gambling boss Sheldon Adelson, interfering in American government, and media does not say a word
[ Editor’s Note: John Bolton has a deep closet profile as the classic bully American, the kind the whole world hates, and should. But he is proud of it.
Commentators are crediting Jєωιѕн-Zionist billionaire Sheldon Adelson with putting the whammy on Trump, such that if the Republicans want to be bankrolled by Shelly in the mid-term elections, he wants Bolton as National Security adviser.
Other government departments familiar with Bolton’s history are advising that the general problem with Bolton is that when has a staff position, he wants it built into a cabinet-level, policy-making position.
Why? The answer is that when the hard-core Jєωιѕн lobby backs national politics, they are actually backing Israel’s national politics; and their insurance that an extra form of payment will be received is to have their proven key people put into these top slots.
“Interfering in American elections since…”
Never discussed, other than at places like VT, is that the Israeli Lobby likes to have at least a handful of their operatives with top-secret security clearances, and the gold standard there is getting access to the daily top briefings.
While Israeli espionage continues to work from the bottom up here, getting their hooks into the top security clearances, including those in Congress, is serious business to them.
You can be assured that when Democrats and Republicans are going through turnovers of key committee chairmanships, the Jєωιѕн Lobby people and major donors are brought into that process.
This is a well-known outrage; and another case where American investigative journalists have chosen never to mention a word about it.
Many claim that is due to the same Lobby making sure our press is also compromised when it comes to Israeli Lobby issues. So far, no one has been able to propose a plan to turn this around… Jim W. Dean]

Re: I like John Bolton and he's not a warmonger. Please!

And I'm the king of Portugal!

No one can "like" the man who is directly responsible for the expediting of World War III.