John Bolton: "I didn’t spend 31 days in Florida, to end up where we are now"

[sabra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/world/middleeast/09bolton.html?em&ex=1194757200&en=f90505d982402620&ei=5087%0A

Bush Loyalist Now Sees a White House Dangerously Soft on Iran and North Korea

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — The White House’s effort to challenge Iran’s nuclear ambitions has been hobbled by “four and a half years of failed diplomacy.” Its policy regarding North Korea is a dangerous fraud. It is pursuing an improbable Palestinian-Israeli peace at the expense of its stance against proliferation in the Middle East.

And that from a longtime Bush loyalist: John R. Bolton, the conservative lawyer who until less than a year ago was President Bush’s proudly unwavering ambassador to the United Nations.

Mr. Bolton, long viewed by liberal critics as a villain on the Bush team, has since emerged as the administration’s most outspoken critic from the right, rebuking his former boss in interviews, in op-ed articles and now in a book. For a man who rushed to Florida in 2000 to join the Bush campaign’s legal fight during the disputed vote recount, the disappointment sounds personal.

“I didn’t spend 31 days in Florida,” he said, “to end up where we are now.”

[JeffR]

1. Those 31 days in Florida

got us ALL to where we are now. What an idiot.

[hobbit709]

2. Damn straight!

[shain from kane]

13. As an aside, I have that image on the cover of a paperback of horror stories from the 1960's. Could

you please tell me where you found it?

[JeffR]

18. Here:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/ryder/

File is race track.jpg.

[shain from kane]

22. Thanks. n/t

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Really, what's with all these ex - employees coming out now

Like they didn't see what was going down all along. Anyone with integrity resigns in protest when they realize the shit that is being pulled.

[Poiuyt]

24. Except in this case, Bolton is saying Bush isn't as crazy as he should be

[tanyev]

4. Awww. All that work he did to help them stage a coup, slipping away, wasted.

So sad.

[unpossibles]

7. seriously!

And why is it no one in the MSM questions lines like that? It's obviously an admission that he spent those days in Florida specifically to put us in a position to invade Iran.

Jesus Christ, these people are scary as hell.

[burythehatchet]

19. Yeah. My bleeding heart aches for him.

:(

[malaise]

5. Truth will out n/t

[angstlessk]

6. so, he says, his plan in 2000 was to invade Iran???

and has nothing to do with supplying bombs to Iraq OR its nuclear ambitions? it was just part of the PNAC plan to own the eart

on edit: the earth, the sky, the moon AND mars..didn't mean to leave the rest of the universe out :grr:

[gratuitous]

8. I stole an election and subverted the Constitution for THIS?

Sounds like buyer's remorse of the worst kind, doesn't it? In a just world, Mr. Bolton, you'd be issuing this statement from the Gray Bar Hotel.

[madokie]

9. I'm just glad we didn't get to where ole rug'stash would like for us to be

he's a traitor and should be dealt with as such

[flashl]

10. This reminds me hearing ...

DAVID GERGEN, Former Presidential Adviser description of this admininistration, "the wheels fell off the wagon".

[Libby2]

11. Fuck you Bolton

and the white horse you rode in on.




eta: I can't spell.

[Venus Dog]

12. Basically admitting his part in the crime

What a piece of shit Bolton is - "I helped steal the election and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

Prison is too good for this punk - he needs to be renditioned.

[Binka]

25. He Needs To Be Shot For Treason

He's admitting it. Shoot the farker. Now.

[Mandate My Ass]

26. You said it

If I wasn't unemployed right now I'd probably have that shirt custom made and send it to the felonious turd.

[shain from kane]

14. Bolton: "Looks like my wife swapping days are over." n/t

[HughBeaumont]

15. Ah, yes. His "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop democracy." moment.

Pardon me if this doesn't make me decrease the amount of "Fuck Off"s, Yosemite Scam.

[riverdeep]

16. Shorter Bolton:

"Waaahhh!! Why aren't we murdering more people already!"

This shithead is saying the administration 'is dangerously soft' on Iran? Know what, asshole, nothing is stopping you from picking up an M-16 with your other war-mongering buddies and taking Iran down. But people like you love to play fast and loose with other people's lives.

Fucking lunatic.

[Javaman]

17. Just once I wish his master wouldn't heed his safe word. nt

[liberal N proud]

20. Sounds to me like the plan hasn't gone like they expected

When they stole the white house in 2000 they expected WW-III and to date it hasn't happened for them.

[Zorra]

21. The anti-democracy PNAC fascist traitor is unhappy that the "catalyzing event -

like a new Pearl Harbor" did not work as well as he thought it would after he helped overthrow our democracy?

[WinkyDink]

23. His absurd visage helped make the re-count a joke on TV.

[Spazito]

27. Oh my, is the poor widdle boy having a temper tantrum because

his neocon wetdream is going down in flames, awwwwwwwww.