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2018-03-22 Home Front: Politix

H.R. McMaster out, Darth Bolton in as National Security Advisor

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-22 18:33|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 So, was he the leaker? I guess that's the reason he's out.

Posted by Raj 2018-03-22 19:04|| 2018-03-22 19:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 19:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The Iranians might want to start filling sandbags.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-22 19:08|| 2018-03-22 19:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 19:36|| Front Page Top

#5 We really need those Cox & Forkum drawings of Darth Vader with Bolton's 'stache.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-03-22 19:50|| 2018-03-22 19:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 20:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Good question, Joe

Posted by Frank G 2018-03-22 20:23|| 2018-03-22 20:23|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-03-22 20:39|| 2018-03-22 20:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 20:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah! Free F150s for everyone!

Posted by gorb 2018-03-22 21:14|| 2018-03-22 21:14|| Front Page Top

#11 drink up

Posted by Frank G 2018-03-22 21:50|| 2018-03-22 21:50|| Front Page Top

#12 So... Chris Wallace of Fox is now getting the Trump scoops.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-03-22 22:07|| 2018-03-22 22:07|| Front Page Top

#13 The libs are freaking out over this.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-03-22 22:11|| 2018-03-22 22:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Music to my ears.

Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-22 22:38|| 2018-03-22 22:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 23:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-03-22 23:52|| Front Page Top

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