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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:19 PM
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John Bolton Urges White House to Not Act 'Limp-Wristed' -- And Hits 'NY Times'
John Bolton Urges White House to Not Act 'Limp-Wristed' -- And Hits 'NY Times'




By E&P Staff
March 01, 2007


NEW YORK John Bolton, no longer our man at the United Nations, revealed in a C-SPAN interview taped today that he is writing a book about his experiences in recent years. He also took a few shots at The New York Times and challenged the Bush administration with this: "For God's sakes, it needs to stand up and defend itself. No reason to act limp-wristed.

"They should defend their policies and not allow The New York Times to characterize the administration's policy. Get out and speak what's on their minds."

Bolton also charged the Times with "painting the Bush administration into a corner" by claiming it is now pursuing a more pragmatic foreign policy in some areas. Bolton denied this, while reiterating that he disagreed with recent White House moves on North Korea.

He said his book is due in November "so I'm typing as fast as my fingers can go." The book's title, he revealed, is "Surrender Is Not An Option: Defending America at the U.N. and Abroad."

.....

..."it's important that people understand the facts."

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youngdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:21 PM
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1. Nice to see a former 'diplomat' revert to gay slurs to insult opponents
He really is a joke. What a piece of shit. (apologies to shit everywhere)
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:27 PM
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14. As Maggie Thatcher said to Reagan, "Now, don't go all wobbly!"
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:21 PM
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2. And thanks for playing "People who should just go away"
Really, John-boy, just go away.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:05 PM
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9. "People who should just go away"
Amen to that. :applause:

John, don't go away mad. John, just go away.
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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:23 PM
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3. He told aipac that he hoped Iran would kick out Nuke inspectors, so there could be a "counter-.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:03 PM
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7. The dickhead has been carrying water for aipac since college.
Sorry bastard.
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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 12:04 AM
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16. It's mutual love. They both support militarism.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:24 PM
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4. "Defend itself" against the
the Truth? What a pack of snarling, snide, jackalfaced, hyenas.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:27 PM
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5. Ya better say yer prayers, ya flea-bitten varmints, I'm a-gonna blow ya to smithereenies!

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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 10:31 PM
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6. Book title should be "Memoirs of a Crazed Walrus"
"Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel -- throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and, generally, behaving like a madman. For nearly two weeks, while I awaited fresh direction from my company and from US AID, John Bolton hounded me in such an appalling way that I eventually retreated to my hotel room and stayed there. Mr. Bolton, of course, then routinely visited me there to pound on the door and shout threats..." - Melody Townsel, Dallas, TX


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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:03 PM
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8. Stand Up And Fight!
Ya crazy var-mints!

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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:10 PM
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10. his hair dresser did him better in his photo
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:17 PM
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11. Oh John you meant limp like your walrus mustache?
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:23 PM
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12. This from a man who forcd his 1st wife to have sex w/ strangers ...
... @ a sex club in NYC in the 1970s & 80s as he watched and played
with himself.

(she left him)
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:25 PM
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13. And that really can't be repeated enough.
Too many people don't have a clue about him.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 12:21 AM
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19. He really is a vile bag of shit.
Funny all that dirt is available to the public via
the court papers from his divorce. I am liberal
and if people are adults .... go for what ever makes
you happy but that was just cruelty on his part.

She left in Vienna .... told him she was going for
coffee .... got a cab to the airport ... flew home
and cleaned out their house before he could come
home.
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4nic8em Donating Member (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 11:57 PM
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15. The facts as I understand
Edited on Thu Mar-01-07 11:58 PM by 4nic8em
them are simply: 1. Who gave a shit what he thought before. 2. Who gives a shit what he thinks now.
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Saboburns Donating Member (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 12:08 AM
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17. To have our Ambassadoe to the UN
Talk so disparaging of the UN.

It boggles the mind.

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 12:13 AM
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18. Disappear, Mr. Bolton
You and the rest of your lizard-brained cadre have greatly overstayed your welcome. I foresee a future of Faux Noise appearance, sucking up Right Wing Welfare, and your lousy book given away as a 2-for-1 special with whatever ptomaine-induced hysteria Little Arfin' Annie is peddling on Billo's crummy website.

In a just world, you'd be hanging from a gibbet with little children mocking your death grimace.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 09:28 AM
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20. Why should anyone in the world care what John Bolton thinks? Why are these
people given 'news' coverage at all?
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riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-02-07 11:42 AM
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21. my god,
(best seinfeld voice)'where do thet get these people?'

Seriously, where?

A secretary of defense who's ruined the pentagon and mumbling incoherently in old man pajamas.

A secretary of state who says in the middle of an Israeli-Palestine powderkeg that the U.S. is waiting for a real peace.

An attorney general who cut his teeth cutting god knows what off of whom in central america.

And a belligerent, oddly mustachiod freak who challenges other nations with blood he never has to spill himself, doubling it all down with other people's money.

Ugh.
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