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Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 08:33 PM Aug 2013

Beyond the axis of evil 'Syria, Cuba and Libya' by John R. Bolton

I can see who is driving this

Bolton: "Beyond the Axis of Evil"

John R. Bolton

On May 6, 2002, then-Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton gave a speech entitled "Beyond the Axis of Evil". In it he added three more nations to be grouped with the already mentioned rogue states: Cuba, Libya, and Syria. The criteria for inclusion in this grouping were: "state sponsors of terrorism that are pursuing or who have the potential to pursue weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or have the capability to do so in violation of their treaty obligations". The speech was widely reported as an expansion of the original axis of evil.

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Beyond the axis of evil 'Syria, Cuba and Libya' by John R. Bolton (Original Post) Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2013 OP
John R Bolton gopiscrap Aug 2013 #1
Nope! No comparison. nT jazzimov Aug 2013 #2
Especially Cuba. silverweb Aug 2013 #3
Yes newfie11 Aug 2013 #13
Fuck John Bolton quinnox Aug 2013 #4
He's still alive? Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #5
Yeah well Bolton is also trying to gear up to run for President......... 4bucksagallon Aug 2013 #6
Cluebyria for short BeyondGeography Aug 2013 #7
You can't spell "John R. Bolton is a moronic ass brain" NuclearDem Aug 2013 #8
LOL! KittyWampus Aug 2013 #10
It's never a mistake to pay no attention whatsoever to anything coming from Bolton struggle4progress Aug 2013 #9
Leave it to Yosemite Sam to lead the chickenhawk brigade! n/t backscatter712 Aug 2013 #11
"Axis of Evil" appears to be a revolving door. mick063 Aug 2013 #12
A "COO COO CA CHOO" to him, too. longship Aug 2013 #14

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
3. Especially Cuba.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 08:45 PM
Aug 2013

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Training and sending all those socialistic doctors all over the world to help the poor. How dare they!



F'n Bolton. Why does anyone print what he has to say?

4bucksagallon

(975 posts)
6. Yeah well Bolton is also trying to gear up to run for President.........
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 08:51 PM
Aug 2013

in 2016, but he is going to have to explain many things. To us Vietnam veterans he will have to explain this quote...........
"Bolton supported the Vietnam War but enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard to avoid being sent overseas, and consequently did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book " I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." So the "man" was a coward then and is a coward now, why should I believe anything he says. He had decided as early as 1970 to be a chickenhawk.

 

mick063

(2,424 posts)
12. "Axis of Evil" appears to be a revolving door.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 09:10 PM
Aug 2013

I have not kept up.

Syria has been added?

What happened to Iran and North Korea? They were in Bush's "Axis of Evil". They got dropped?

Is the "Axis of Evil" a flavor of the month type thing?

"Axis of Evil" appears to come in sets of three.
Sort of like Italy, Germany, and Japan.
Hence the "Axis" I suppose.

Has a nice propagandist ring to it. "Axis of Evil"


Here is mine:

ALEC, Tea Party, Koch Brothers.

Bolton comes from that ilk. He is a member of my "Axis of Evil"

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