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Title: John Bolton at CPAC: The Benefits of Nuking Chicago
Source: MotherJones
URL Source: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/200 ... n-cpac-benefits-nuking-chicago
Published: Feb 27, 2009
Author: Jonathan Stein
Post Date: 2009-02-27 10:50:03 by bush_is_a_moonie
Keywords: None
Views: 1868
Comments: 46

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation's largest annual conference of conservative activists, Bolton, one of the hardest hardliners of the George W. Bush administration, spoke at length about Obama's naiveté and how various nations – Russia, North Korea, Iran – will be exploiting the new president. The most dramatic moment of his speech may have been when he cracked a joke about the nuking of Obama's hometown.

"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," said Bolton. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city" – here Bolton shrugged his shoulders impishly – "pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?"

Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause. Was this conservative catharsis, with rightwingers delightfully imagining the destruction of a city that represents Obama? Or perhaps they were venting vengeance with their laughter. (Bolton is no stranger to inflammatory remarks. He once infamously quipped, "There are 38 floors to the UN building in New York. If you lost 10 of them, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.")

At CPAC, the Right's most fevered beliefs about Obama live on, with speakers portraying him as a radical liberal who wants to compromise American values, hand hard-earned taxpayer dollars to the shifty poor, and, as Bolton repeatedly pointed out, weaken America's defense.

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#3. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)

Is there anyone who has less credibility in foreiogn affairs than someone whose credentials start with "Former Booosh Adminstration...."?

war  posted on  2009-02-27   11:39:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: war (#3)

Is there anyone who has less credibility in foreiogn affairs than someone whose credentials start with "Former Booosh Adminstration...."?

Former Kosovo Clinton Administration ??

Rotara  posted on  2009-02-27   11:48:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Rotara (#6) (Edited)

Former Kosovo Clinton Administration ??

They dragged us into the Kosovo conflict with half-truths, exagerrations, and outright lies, true. But at least the Clinton administration didn't try to sell the war by claiming that Serbia posed a mortal security risk to the United States, like Buffoon Bolton is doing with Iran and Syria.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2009-02-27   11:52:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Rupert_Pupkin, christine, all (#7)

They [Klinton] dragged us into the Kosovo conflict with half-truths, exagerrations, and outright lies, true. But at least the Clinton administration didn't try to sell the war by claiming that Serbia posed a mortal security risk to the United States, like Buffoon Bolton is doing with Iran and Syria.

What the hell difference does that make? The reason for lying us into war makes it no less obscene.

/hypocrisy alert

IndieTX  posted on  2009-02-27   17:01:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: IndieTX (#17)

What the hell difference does that make?

Not much, except for the "Iran is going to nuke US cities if we don't stop them" is an even bigger insult to your intelligence (or ought to be) than the Clinton administration's pseudo-humanitarian claptrap.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2009-02-27   17:23:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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