A Twilight Zone message to John Bolton and all the other Right Wing Chicken Hawks

[tomhagen]

[KT2000]

1. Excellent message

for everyone in this administration.

[struggle4progress]

2. Republicans and patriotism

Published April 9, 2018 at 03:44PM
BY MARK SHIELDS

... “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost” ...

The Yale alumnus who chose not to put himself anywhere near harm’s way in 1970 was John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s choice to become his administration’s third national security adviser in just 15 months. Bolton, who has not been reluctant to recommend pre-emptive U.S. military action against North Korea and Iran and still, some 15 years later, continues to defend the wisdom of the U.S. war in Iraq, apparently misses any moral inconsistency between his own decision as a young man to avoid service and dispatching young Americans to combat that is anything but clearly winnable ...

https://www.uniondemocrat.com/home/6154042-151/republicans-and-patriotism

[struggle4progress]

3. Bolton's response to an Iraqi War Veteran

Trump requests paperwork to pardon accused US war criminals

By Eli Watkins, CNN
Updated 8:13 AM ET, Sun May 19, 2019
... On the campaign trail, Trump implied he would support torturing detainees as president, and after significant pushback for his enthusiastic comments about waterboarding and killing the families of terrorists, he reversed the position in a statement. But just days after taking the oath of office, Trump again expressed support for torture and said he "absolutely" believed it works. Trump's potential pardons for accused and convicted war criminals, if issued, would mark the latest gesture from the US President toward a change in standards for US war efforts and treatment of detainees that he intimated on the campaign trail ...

[rpannier]

4. "A Violent Man!"

said about the guy opposed to planting the flag
That was great
K&R

[apkhgp]

6. I caught that remark too

This war monger takes objection to what the "violent man" told him. What about the violence of war? What about the murderous intentions of a zealot bent on planting the American flag the world over. How many people do you have to kill to get that done? Does that not cross into genocide? Or have we already gone down that road and it is too late to turn back.

[erlewyne]

5. My feelings are deep and I cannot believe my country men elected Trump

What I learned in 1968 was that what I was doing was not right
and I loathed the hippies back home, but when I got back I
grew my hair and wore a peace sign. All the dodgers back home
down graded me along with the hippies. But I served and they
did not.