Comments on: Report: John Bolton is Puffing Up Intelligence Again

By: sawadee2000

sawadee2000 — Fri, 10 May 2019 13:52:00 +0000

Get ready for a phony “Gulf of Tonkin” incident which will let Bolton to get the war he’s been praying for. With Trump riding a tank into Tehran like George fucking Patton. I only hope someone coldcocks Trump before he decides to start lobbing nukes. All “patriotic” Americans will rally around the commander in chief, right? Please excuse me while I vomit, as The President of the United States continues to shit all over the constitution.

By: fry1laurie

fry1laurie — Fri, 10 May 2019 00:14:00 +0000

Funny how the Drumpf admin takes the intelligence community’s word on Iran, but on Russia….

By: Aynwrong

Aynwrong — Thu, 09 May 2019 22:02:00 +0000

Glenn Greenwald’s, Susan Sarandon’s and Jill Stein’s idiotic usefulness is on full display.

By: muselet

muselet — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:48:00 +0000

Juan Cole on Monday:

Iran does not have so much as a battleship and has no air force to speak of, and so you do not actually need an aircraft carrier to deal with it. Back when Dick Cheney was trying to provoke Iran, late in the Bush administration, he also sent an aircraft carrier to the Gulf, and the snowflake conservatives were crying that Iranian skiffs had menaced it. Skiffs.

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For all we know four young Shiites in Sadr City were overheard wishing ill on foreign troops on Iraqi soil, and Bolton wants to blame Iran for the conversation.

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John Bolton desperately wants Donald Trump to get the US into a war with someone, anyone.

The government of Iran is a lot of thing, few of them good, but it’s not filled with stupid people. Everyone knows Iran would be turned into a glass parking lot (h/t Charlie Pierce) if it even hinted at menacing the US, let alone sending undefined “proxies” to carry out actual attacks.

Bolton is a dangerous madman and Trump is stupid enough to believe his lies.

–alopecia