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Home Front: Politix
H.R. McMaster out, Darth Bolton in as National Security Advisor
2018-03-22
[FOX News] Nothing on the web yet. This from Chris Wallace at Fox news. McMaster to Bolton hand-off to be conducted 9 April. McMaster sez he's dropping his Army retirement papers. Looks like no 4th star.

CBC News link located.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  Geeesh, a neo-con of the first order. Then again, Dems are pro-war, too. So, net effect: nil.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2018-03-22 23:52  

#15  Didnt the leave the rubble bouncing lot end up with ISIS?

That's not rubble. Rubble would be killing Saddam's army by attacking it head-on instead of bypassing it to get to Baghdad quickly. Our problem is that we left his army intact. When Germany surrendered, 5m German soldiers lay dead. That's 7% of its pre-war population. That is what war weariness looks like. Syrians are war weary after losing perhaps 400K military dead out of 20m people. That's 2% of the population. I suspect if we had simply killed Saddam's army in battle, the occupation would have been a lot more peaceful.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-03-22 23:29  

#14  Music to my ears.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724   2018-03-22 22:38  

#13  The libs are freaking out over this.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-22 22:11  

#12  So... Chris Wallace of Fox is now getting the Trump scoops.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056   2018-03-22 22:07  

#11  drink up
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-22 21:50  

#10  Yeah! Free F150s for everyone!
Posted by: gorb   2018-03-22 21:14  

#9  Why does the Director of the IRS,John Koskinen, still have a JOB????? Posted by Joe of the Jungle

Accountants are powerful people. Louis Shumway was Capone's bookkeeper and the man who helped Ness take Capone down.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-22 20:40  

#8  Didnt the leave the rubble bouncing lot end up with ISIS?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-03-22 20:39  

#7  Good question, Joe
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-22 20:23  

#6  Why does the Director of the IRS,John Koskinen, still have a JOB?????
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2018-03-22 20:18  

#5  We really need those Cox & Forkum drawings of Darth Vader with Bolton's 'stache.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-03-22 19:50  

#4  Bolton's a good guy, but he's big on neo-con regime changing.

Regime change? Sure. Nation-building? Been there. Done that. Never again. Smash it to smithereens, and let the bastards fight over the rubble.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-03-22 19:36  

#3  The Iranians might want to start filling sandbags.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-22 19:08  

#2  Not sure about this.
Bolton's a good guy, but he's big on neo-con regime changing. At least that's what I've got from reading some of his stuff.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-03-22 19:06  

#1  So, was he the leaker? I guess that's the reason he's out.
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-22 19:04  

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